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Consultants advise spending shift to strengthen national PTV programs
A bold strategic study for public TV, commissioned by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, recommends that stations spend less on local program ...The return of the Louds: WNET to air 1973 film
After 17 years in blissful obscurity, the Loud family is about to be put back into the public television fish bowl. WNET-TV ...ITVS taps first head: John Schott
The Independent Television Service, the organization established by Congress to distribute $6 million in production grants to independent television producers, has selected ...PBS hires Jennifer Lawson as chief programmer
The Public Broadcasting Service reached across the Potomac River and some bad blood to pick Jennifer Lawson, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s ...House committee approves independent program service for public TV
The House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday approved a public broadcasting funding bill that would create a separate program service for independent ...‘I give an expression of care
every day to each child’Probably the most famous congressional testimony delivered on behalf of CPB appropriations came from Fred Rogers on May 2, 1969. The young ...JFK: facilities act will help lower barriers to education, 1962
Statement by President John Kennedy, May 1, 1962, upon signing the Educational Television Act, Public Law 87-447 (76 Stat. 64), which provided ...Styles tryout April 2013
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