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FCC notice to WTTW of fines for underwriting violations, 1997
In 1997, the FCC fined Chicago public TV station WTTW for violating commission standards for underwriting credits (Current coverage). More than two years ...Let’s do it: PTV Weekend is worth trying
A debate on the proposed PTV Weekend experiment for two-nights-a-week advertising on public TV For the plan, below: Mike Hardgrove, president of public ...Critics arise as PTV Weekend plan gets some ink
Lawrence Grossman’s PTV Weekend proposal for experimentation with a two-night commercial network for public TV stations — described for the first time ...Let’s not do it: PTV Weekend is a bad idea
A debate on the proposed PTV Weekend experiment for two-nights-a-week advertising on public TV Against the plan, below: Fred Esplin, general manager of ...PTV Weekend: Notes on Questions, Concerns, Strengths and Benefits
James Fellows, long active in public TV’s national leadership and founder of Current, analyzed the PTV Weekend proposal, when it was published in ...‘The question of length is really settled’
A movement among big-market stations to accept 30-second underwriting spots is turning up the heat on PBS to resolve longstanding discrepancies between ...Station coffers gain from advances in the pledging arts
For the second year in a row, spring pledge revenues are up for public broadcasting stations around the country.The gains are a ...Citizens’ group organizes to back full CPB funding
A professional campaign firm has begun setting up a Citizens’ Committee for Public Broadcasting to coordinate grassroots support for “full funding” of ...Duggan maps path to shared gains for system
PBS put forth a new framework for thinking about its relationship with member stations last week, asserting that they’re all in the ...Public ranks pubcasting high in value per dollar
In a Roper Poll taken March 18-25, Americans ranked public TV and public radio among the services that provide the best value for ...The plans that went to Congress
Here are brutally shortened summaries of proposals in the two funding plans that went to Congress in spring 1995: “Common Sense for ...Two separate funding plans go up to the Hill
Pubcasters have given Congress two separate proposals for future funding of the field: one from CPB and the other a joint effort ...Local talks and new national rules aim to end wasteful overlap of stations
From here on out, it will be a lot harder to volunteer a public broadcasting station into existence. For a quarter-century, you mainly ...House leader demands a plan; Senate backs higher numbers
Having emerged from the first 100 days of the 104th Congress with most of its advance funding intact, public broadcasting is entering ...How much of the funding gap would individuals fill?
In this time of unprecedented threat to public broadcasting, people are responding with unprecedented generosity to station’s pleas for support. TV station ...
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