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Fordham station sues for PTFP grant eligibility
Reportedly denied eligibility for a federal equipment grant because it carries one church service a week, Fordham University’s WFUV-FM has sued the ...Twentieth Century Fund panel seeks more federal aid for PTV, but would halt CPB grants ...
With the warning that public television must “reinvent itself” if it is to “meet the needs of the American public in the ...A legend for our times
When the governor emerged from the sub shop, Susan Farmer was waiting by his limo.Annenberg comes back with $60 million
Walter H. Annenberg has returned to CPB with $60 million—and a revised educational purpose — a year and a half after pulling ...Will Pete Rose watch Virginia public TV?
Virginia public broadcasters and state lottery officials are hoping for a big payoff in audience numbers by televising the state’s lottery prize ...GAO statement on NPR financial crisis, 1984
NPR was shaken, President Frank Mankiewicz and other top managers toppled and some 60 staffers laid off in the network’s 1983 financial ...Temporary Commission on Alternative Financing, 1983
The Temporary Commission on Alternative Financing for Public Telecommunications (TCAF) delivered its recommendations to Congress on Oct. 1, 1983, after extensive research, ...The Hidden Medium: A Status Report on Educational Radio in the United States, 1967
With support building for federal aid to public TV, the advocates of public radio found they had to act quickly to make their ...
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