National Educational Television

National Educational Television

NET logo from April 1960 to November 1964 and again from June 1967 to October 1970
Country	United States
Headquarters	New York City, U.S.
Ownership
Owner	Ford Foundation (1954–1970) Corporation for Public Broadcasting (1967–1970)
History
Founded	November 21, 1952 (1952-11-21) in Washington, D.C., U.S.
Launched	May 16, 1954 (1954-05-16) (as a network)
Closed	October 4, 1970 (1970-10-04) (16 years, 4 months and 18 days)
Replaced by	Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
Former names	Educational Television and Radio Center National Educational Television and Radio Center

National Educational Television (NET) is a former American educational broadcast television network owned by the Ford Foundation and later co-owned by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It operated from May 16, 1954, to October 4, 1970, and was succeeded by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which has memberships with many television stations that were formerly part of NET.

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) provided funds for cataloging the NET collection, and as part of an on-going preservation effort with the Library of Congress, over 10,000 digitized television programs from the non-commercial TV stations and producers spanning 20 years from 1952 to 1972 have been contributed to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.^[1]