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Series: The Ten O'Clock News
Date: 1989-05-15
Duration: 00:02:26
Subject: Urban poverty
People: Jones, Marcus; Prothrow-Stith, Deborah; Spivak, Howard;
Clip Description
Marcus Jones reports that top officials from the Department of Public Health held a press conference to celebrate the positive findings of a study on the state's Healthy Start Program. Jones notes that the program provides prenatal, birth, and post-partum care to poor and uninsured women. Jones' report includes footage of Deborah Prothrow-Stith (Commissioner, Department of Public Health) and Howard Spivak (Deputy Commissioner, Department of Public Health) at the press conference. Spivak says that high-risk women in the program had excellent results. Prothrow-Stith talks about the importance of prenatal care. Jones reviews the findings of the study of the program. Jones interviews Spivak about continued state funding for the program. Jones reports that the program's preventative medicine saves money in the long-run. Jones' report includes footage of infants, mothers, and health care workers in a hospital nursery.
This edition of the Ten O'Clock News also included the following item:
The Consortium of Minority Business Enterprises promotes minority set-aside programs
Minority contractors in favor of set-aside programs
Series Description
A local program aimed at the Boston audience, The Ten O'Clock News debuted on January 15, 1976. Its two immediate predecessors were The Reporters and Evening Compass. A news and public affairs show focusing on neighborhood, local and state issues, The Reporters was produced and broadcast on WGBH from 1970 to 1973. The Reporters was then replaced by Evening Compass, which expanded into a twice-nightly news broadcast during the tense moments of Boston's busing crisis. On the air from 1973 to 1975, Evening Compass found an audience through its in-depth coverage of school desegregation in Boston, which began in 1974. The Ten O'Clock News stood out as an in-depth news program. It strove for a balance between local and national stories, between politics and the Arts. The last The Ten O'Clock News program was broadcast on May 30, 1991.
