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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, ...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 ...
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