John G. McBride

(1926- ) born in Omaha, lives in Lincoln. Educator, television executive, considered a pioneer in educational television, he activated one of the nation's first ten public educational television stations in 1954, initiated the Nebraska Educational Television Network in 1963 which became a pioneer in interactive video disc technology, the first in the nation to lease and purchase a satellite transponder, and site of Great Plains National, a self-supporting production and distribution service that is responsible for the Emmy Award-winning Reading Rainbow; the NETV was co-recipient with Great Amwell Company in 1981 of a Peabody Award for a Mark Twain drama series, and co-recipient with WGBH of Boston in 2003 of a Peabody Award for a documentary on the 1925 trial of Tennessee teacher John Scopes. Consult Nebraska on the March, December 1954, pp. 3-4 and Winter 1972, pp. 12-13 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald, February 12, 1995, pp. E-1, E-6 and January 28, 1996, pp. R-66, R-67 and Lincoln Journal Star, July 5, 1996, pp. D-1, D-4.

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