TV & VIDEO - July 6, 1988

More than 700 public-TV program and station managers are meeting in San Francisco today for the annual program fair--stage two in the protracted process by which stations each year pick (and pay for) the major national programs that will be seen on PBS in the coming season. The first thing they’ll tackle is a PBS blueprint designed to help the system “come to grips in the 1990s with the changing environment of TV, particularly cable,” according to Peter Downey, PBS’ senior vice president, program support group. “We really have to streamline and make more effective the national programming service.”