NY TIMES ARTICLE - 10/05/10
“Murrow was founded in 1974 as a progressive high school that emphasized creativity, independence and the “communication arts.” When its television studios opened in the late 1970s, Mr. Anderson recalled, they had huge Hitachi color cameras and audio equipment that he once smuggled out of the building to record the Beastie Boys, a band founded in 1979 by a classmate, Adam Yauch…The fate of the studio illustrates how difficult it is to maintain an expensive program in a public school, especially one that is dependent on constantly changing technology.”
