TV & VIDEO - Dec. 2, 1988

Media-generated glasnost took a quantum leap in intensity Wednesday, when it was learned that two Soviet TV executives met with officials of WGBH-TV, Boston’s public TV station, for preliminary talks about airing a Public Broadcasting Service series about the nuclear era on Soviet TV. Vladimir I. Popov, vice chairman of the U.S.S.R. State Committee for Television and Radio, and Boris Semenov--deputy head of the committee’s international relations department--saw several clips from “War and Peace in the Nuclear Age,” to be shown on PBS stations beginning Jan. 23. They then reiterated their interest in airing the series in the Soviet Union, in March or thereafter. Commented Senenov: “It would be just fine to show a point of view of an American television producer and presenting opinions of both Americans and Soviets on the issues of the past and history, pertaining to nuclear matters.”