3-554: New York Times Youth Forum was a public affairs program, sponsored by The New York Times and aired Sundays at 5pm EST on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 14, 1952, to June 14, 1953. The host was Dorothy Gordon (born Dorothy Lerner, 1889–1970), who continued to host the show on WABD from the time the network closed in 1956 until 1958 when it moved to WRCA-TV (now WNBC ). The Times dropped sponsorship in 1960, at which point radio simulcasts moved from WQXR (AM) to WNBC (AM) . Thereafter, Gordon continued
6-493: The United States, among commercial broadcasters , such programs are often only to satisfy Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulatory expectations and are not scheduled in prime time . Public affairs television programs are often broadcast at times when few listeners or viewers are tuned in (or even awake) in time slots known as graveyard slots ; such programs can be frequently encountered at times such as 5-6 a.m. on
9-665: The show as Dorothy Gordon's Youth Forum , winning a Peabody Award in 1966. Gordon continued to host the show until her death in 1970. The show also appeared first-run as late as April 23, 1967 (with guest Otto Preminger ) on WNBC-TV . One episode, "Will the Election Affect Foreign Policy?" (broadcast September 28, 1952), survives at the Paley Center for Media . Public affairs (broadcasting) In broadcasting , public affairs radio or television programs focus on matters of politics and public policy . In
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