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National Educational Television (NET) was an American educational and public television network founded in early 1952 and incorporated in November of that year. Among their original affiliates were WNET 13 New York, KCET 28 Los Angeles, WGBH 2 Boston, KQED 9 San Francisco, WQED 13 Pittsburgh, WETA 26 Washington D.C., KUHT 8 Houston, KERA 13 Dallas-Ft. Worth, and WYES 12 New Orleans. It was originally named The Educational Television and Radio Center, a name it used until 1959, when it was renamed The National Educational Television and Radio Center; the radio portion was dropped in 1962. PBS succeeded NET in 1970, the result of the Corporation of Public Broadcasting and the Ford Foundation having pulled funding for NET. It merged with WNDT to become the Educational Broadcasting Corporation, the parent company of WNET, in 1972.

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