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Jac Venza Dies: Producer Who Transformed Public Television Was 97
Venza, a key to establishing PBS, is dead at 97.
Jac Venza, who was a key to helping American television in the 1960s and ’70s transform into a bastion of top-notch cultural programming, including Great Performances and Live From Lincoln Center, died May 28 at his home in Lyme, Connecticut. His collaborations included choreographers like George Balanchine and Martha Graham, composers like Leonard Bernstein ,and playwrights like Tennessee Williams. Meryl Streep appeared onscreen for the first time in the William Gillette play, Secret Service on Great Performances.
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