THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC TELEVISION 2004 Arts and Humanities in Public Life Conference December 2–3, 2004 Executive Summary Cultural Policy Center The Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies The University of Chicago Copyright © 2005 The University of Chicago, Cultural Policy Center For more information or for copies of this book contact: Cultural Policy Center at The University of Chicago The Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies 1155 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637–2745 ISBN: 0–9747407–1–7 Phone: 773–702–4407 Fax: 773–702–0926 Email:
[email protected] http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu Photography: Lloyd De Grane 2004. Design: Froeter Design Company, Inc. Printed in the United States. Housed at the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, the Cultural Policy Center at The University of Chicago fosters research to inform public dialogue about the practical workings of culture in our lives. “The Future of Public Television” was the fifth in a series of “Arts in Humanities and Public Life” conferences held by the Cultural Policy Center. The conference was produced with the generous support of the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, the McCormick Tribune Foundation, the Irving Harris Foundation, and Jamee Rosa. Complete conference transcripts available at: http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu. CONFERENCE DEDICATION The 2004 Arts and Humanities in Public Life Conference was dedicated to the memory of Irving B. Harris (1910– 2004), whose notable success as a businessman played a distant second to his remarkable philanthropy for children’s welfare, public policy, and the arts.