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'''National Educational Television''' (NET) was a non-profit public broadcasting [[television]] (and until 1963, radio) radio service and educational program distributor in the [[United States]].  NET was established in November 1952 as the '''Educational Television and Radio Center''' and operated as a network from May 16, 1954 until October 4, 1970, when it was replaced by educational network [[PBS]].  It was affiliated with the National Educational Radio Network (the forerunner of [[National Public Radio]]) through the [[Ford Foundation]], a private foundation established in 1936 by Edsel and Henry Ford.  Each NET affiliate station was/is owned independently but they shared programming and funding and showed similar programs.

'''National Educational Television''' (NET) was a non-profit public broadcasting [[television]] (and until 1963, radio) service and educational program distributor in the [[United States]].  NET was established in November 1952 as the '''Educational Television and Radio Center''' and operated as a network from May 16, 1954 until October 4, 1970, when it was replaced by educational network [[PBS]].  It was affiliated with the National Educational Radio Network (the forerunner of [[National Public Radio]]) through the [[Ford Foundation]], a private foundation established in 1936 by Edsel and Henry Ford.  Each NET affiliate station was/is owned independently but they shared programming and funding and showed similar programs.

NET, like its successor PBS, was accused of aiming its broadcasts toward wealthy, elite segments of the American population while neglecting others, who nonetheless paid for the programming.  It initially launched children's programs ''[[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood]]'' and ''[[Sesame Street]]'' (both of which later moved to PBS), but it was best known for its production of controversial documentary and news programs such as ''NET Journal'' and ''Public Broadcast Laboratory'', which drew much criticism for their [[liberal media bias|liberal/left-wing slants]]; a number of NET affiliates refused to carry those programs for that reason.  NET also imported programs from production companies and state-owned public broadcasters in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, the USSR, Yugoslavia, France, Italy and West Germany.

NET, like its successor PBS, was accused of aiming its broadcasts toward wealthy, elite segments of the American population while neglecting others, who nonetheless paid for the programming.  It initially launched children's programs ''[[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood]]'' and ''[[Sesame Street]]'' (both of which later moved to PBS), but it was best known for its production of controversial documentary and news programs such as ''NET Journal'' and ''Public Broadcast Laboratory'', which drew much criticism for their [[liberal media bias|liberal/left-wing slants]]; a number of NET affiliates refused to carry those programs for that reason.  NET also imported programs from production companies and state-owned public broadcasters in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, the USSR, Yugoslavia, France, Italy and West Germany.