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When President Clinton had just taken office in 1993, Current asked an assortment of outside-the-Beltway people connected with public broadcasting to write open ...To serve as a catalyst in making our cities work
When President Clinton had just taken office in 1993, Current asked an assortment of outside-the-Beltway people connected with public broadcasting to write open ...This time we let our listeners hear directly from candidates
In fall 1992, a number of public broadcasting’s gatekeepers opened their gates to give candidates unedited, unmediated “free time” to talk with ...But how did outreach affect life in the real world?
The evaluation — one of the most extensive attempts to assess the influence of a public TV outreach project — found that ...Advocates of free time for candidates are many — those who try it are few
Though the 1988 campaign prompted many calls for television networks to let candidates talk directly to the voters, candidates again this season ...‘Tongues Untied’: a debate on purpose and courage
The film wasn't explicitly on the agenda for the first of two open-mike sessions at the Public Television Annual Meeting June 23, ...Now independent producers have role in funding
Independent Television Service (ITVS) announced this week its first round of 25 grants to independent TV producers. The projects will bring to the ...Ottinger and Kobin: two broadcast managers who stood up for diversity of viewpoints
Two controversies put public TV general managers to the test: How far would they extend their necks for the principle that public ...Frontline: an ‘essential’ mechanism for telling serious stories
Frontline sometimes comes on like a multimedia prosecutor, revealing the evidence in pictures, voices and logic, and driving toward a conclusion. It’s usually ...ITVS issues first round of grants
...The announcement is a landmark in a long struggle for public TV producers outside of stations to gain an official place in ...Tongues re-tied? Filmmaker Marlon Riggs speaks for a group mainstream America would prefer to ‘erase’
"'Tongues Untied' was motivated by a singular imperative: to shatter America's brutalizing silence around matters of sexual and racial difference. Yet despite ...Many stations nix or delay film about black gay men
At least 17 major stations have opted not to air “Tongues Untied.”Independent TV Service and CPB finally sign accord
The Independent Television Service and CPB signed a long-delayed contract that will pass $23 million of federal money to the St. Paul-based ...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 ...Consultants advise spending shift to strengthen national PTV programs
[The Boston Consulting Group study for CPB] ... gave public broadcasters an unfamiliar profit/loss sketch of their major functions. Local program production, ...
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