UPDATE Arthur L. Singer Jr., who became an unheralded father of public television in the late 1960s after commercial networks were famously accused of broadcasting a “vast wasteland” of programs, died Dec. 24 at his Westport home, The New York TImes reported. He was 90.
Arthur Singer: promoted public TV. Fabian Bachrach photo
His death was confirmed by his son Charles, the newspaper said.
In a note to WestportNow, Charles Singer said his father was a Westport resident for 50 years —first, for two years in Greens Farms and then for about 48 years on Owenoke Park near Compo Beach. In Westport, he served on the board of the United Fund, the Committee for Administrative Restructuring of the School System, and chairman of task forces to ensure community participation in the 1975 revision of the Town Plan, Charles Singer said.
“In the formative years of government- and subscriber-funded public television and radio, Mr. Singer was said to have been instrumental in galvanizing federal officials, philanthropies and academics to seed the public airwaves with quality programming and to finance future development,” the TImes said.
See full obituary HERE.
