Articles of Incorporation of Public Broadcasting Service. Public Broadcasting Policy Base. Jan 14, 2000. Retrieved May 4, 2011. Web.

This outlined the details of PBS and put me on the right track, away from the NET and more focused on the public access side of things.

Barnouw, Erik. Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American Television. New York: Oxford University Press. 1990

While this book covers the entire topic of television history it has several excerpts that describe the development of the public access stations, as well as the struggles they faced to keep the channels and the ability to stay on air. There is some discussion of the very early channels and what their programming entailed.

Boyle, Deirdre. “From Portapak to Camcorder: A brief history of Guerrilla Television”. Journal of Film and Video. Spring- Summer 1992 Pages 67-79.

Boyle gives a brief layout of the development of the underground video as well as its move into Public Access stations. This article was useful in creating an overall picture of the time and what was being done with the media. The article described the way that some of the videos were made as well as the kind of videos and shows being produced.

Boyle, Deirdre. Subject to Change: Guerilla television revisited. New York: Oxford University Press. 1997.

This book is a very detailed look at the Guerilla television. Instead of focusing on the early development it looks more at what was starting in the late 60s to 70s and continues on from there to the 90s. It discusses the agreements with cable as well as the development of the medium from portapacks to camcorders. This book had a lot of information to sift through and was interesting to read.

Engelman, Ralph. Public Radio and Television in America: A political history. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996.

One of the most helpful books I found. It not only described what was going on politically, and with legislation but also what was happening to many of the small groups. I looked to it a lot. Initially it was overwhelming with all the information, however once I figured out the specifics that I wanted to look at I was able to use this in tandem with Boyle’s work and get a solid picture of what things were looking like.

Gibson, George H. Public Broadcasting: The role of the Federal Government, 1912-76. New York: Praeger Publishers. 1977.

Gibson gives a very legal look at what was going on in the early development of television. He discusses what the FCC was trying to do and how things were looking for Educational Television starting from the very beginning of the allocation all the way through the all station freeze and well into the 70s. There are some portions that focus on PBS which I decided to exclude, however the development described was very useful.

Kellner, Douglas. Public Access Television. UCLA. Retrieved May 7, 2011. http://gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/essays/publicaccesstv.pdf

This is a bit more detailed article in a slightly more legal way. It also details the names of some of the people who began the Public Access stations as well as the five major corporations. Several times discussing problems with programming as well as legal and funding. Once again this article was essential to directing me in where to look for further digging as well as aiding the narrowing of my discussion.

McGillQueens Uploaded on Feb 19, 2010 “Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada — book trailer”. YouTube. Retrieved May 7, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ythLjeAiPnc

This showed film clips of the Challenge for Change show in Canada. It helped to give a video to the name; it was rather difficult to imagine what the show had looked like. There were group shots, as well as close ups of people talking to each other or the camera. The film clips date to the 1960s and 70s.

MediaBurnArchive. Uploaded on Feb 15, 2007 “Media Burn by Ant Farm:  Car Crash”. YouTube retrieved May 8, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U53-Sfnqwss

This was news coverage of some of the underground video group, they crashed as car into a wall to TVs it was very interesting, perhaps not particularly useful to my topic.

Olson, William D.S. The History of Public Television Eau Clair Community Television, 2000. Retrieved May 7, 2011. Web

This essay was helpful in having an organized arrangement of events. Many of the things were more simplified then in the books and so it helped to have something that when I was unsure of what came first this was there to refer to.

Zouraspm uploaded on Aug 29, 2009. “Paper Tiger TV excerpts Herb Schiller Reads the NYT” YouTube. Retrieved May 8, 2011. Web http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MqIYJf13Hw

While we had seen some Paper Tiger TV in class it was interesting to see what other shows looked like, it depicted the reading of the NY Times, discussion of Romance Novels, Magazines and some of the soap opera show we saw.