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‘Tell them Newt asked you to help’
Fundraising pitches by House Speaker Newt Gingrich drew unprecedented media coverage and helped to boost March pledge receipts at WPBA, Atlanta, home-town ...Consultant to CPB: Public broadcasting is worth billions to the public
If public broadcasting loses its federal aid, it’s “highly unlikely” that it will recover the same amounts by increasing revenues from product ...What did Barney earn, and why didn’t PBS get more?
Of all the facts, half-truths and distortions used by public broadcasting's opponents in the ongoing contest to redefine the field's public image, ...Pressler gets three boxes of especially dry reading
Public broadcasting’s response to a detailed inquiry by Sen. Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) arrived on Capitol Hill the evening of Feb. 10 [1995], ...Pressler gets three boxes of especially dry reading
Public broadcasting’s response to a detailed inquiry by Sen. Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) arrived on Capitol Hill the evening of Feb. 10, accompanied ...Public view on CPB funding: favorable but also ‘soft’
Three polls taken last month gave majorities of 62 to 84 percent favoring CPB’s federal funding. Then, a few days later, comes ...Pubcasting finds itself put ‘in play’ — briefly
When public broadcasters awoke on Jan. 23 [1995], they saw the headlines and their heads started spinning. Newspapers reported that Bell Atlantic ...Let’s privatize Congress!
It’s time to privatize Congress. The federal subsidy of this playground for the rich is bleeding American taxpayers and adding to the ...Pressler stocking up on ammunition
An inquiry by Sen. Larry Pressler last week put public broadcasters on notice that they face hostile scrutiny during Senate consideration of ...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 ...
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