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Article: Public Television, Bread and Circuses
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 2, 1987
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With much fanfare, the high panjandrums of Maryland Public
Television announced last week that on New Year's Eve they will
broadcast a three-hour celebration from Baltimore to all but a
handful of the country's Public Broadcasting Service stations. The
program will feature the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Mel Torme',
Misha Dichter, Wynton Marsalis and other musical eminences, and will
be topped off with a fireworks extravaganza at the Inner Harbor.
Baltimore's publicists and promoters of tourism must already be
licking their chops.
So too must be the publicists and promoters at Maryland Public
Television, which under its current president, Raymond Ho, has become
something of a hot ...