History of public media
Tuning out education, Chapter 3
Rival lobbies fought for regulators’ nod “If you educators do not hold radio for yourselves,” Judge Ira Robinson told educational broadcasters in June ...Tuning out education, Chapter 2
Education had no 'inalienable right to part of the air,' said the spokesman for broadcaster-educator Cooperation in 1930. It would have to ...Tuning out education, Chapter 1
Educators never made up the ground they lost during the 1920s and 1930s. They were outspent, outmaneuvered in Washington and outproduced on ...Tuning out education
How did advertising-driven broadcasting establish itself as the dominant user of the airwaves in America? A crucial episode occurred in the 1930s ...A Public Trust: Report of the second Carnegie Commission (Carnegie II), 1979
In 1977, a decade after the first Carnegie Commission boosted the idea of federal funding for noncommercial broadcasting, the Carnegie Corporation of ...Nixon Administration Public Broadcasting Papers, Summary of 1971
A major part of OTP’s activity in 1971 involved the development of a long-term financing bill for CPB. However, because of disagreements ...Nixon Administration Public Broadcasting Papers, 1969-1974 — Introduction
These memos from the Nixon Administration cover a period of peak conflict between the White House and public broadcasting. The documents were ...Public Television Program Financing
This detailed paper was published in the October 1972 issue of Educational Broadcasting Review, the journal of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters. The paper ...NPR Articles of Incorporation, 1970
These articles were attached to National Public Radio’s certificate of incorporation filed with the District of Columbia Recorder of Deeds, Feb. 26, 1970. ARTICLES ...Articles of Incorporation of Public Broadcasting Service
On Nov. 3, 1969, four public broadcasters, including the presidents of CPB and National Educational Television (NET), incorporated a new nonprofit organization ...The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967
Enacted less than 10 months after the report of the Carnegie Commission on Educational Broadcasting, this law initiates federal aid to the ...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 ...President Johnson asks Congress to aid public television, 1967
A month after the release of the first Carnegie Commission report, LBJ announced legislation to help pay for operations of public TV for ...Educational Television Facilities Act of 1962
With this law, signed by President Kennedy on May 1, 1962, Congress gave the first major federal aid to public broadcasting. The grants ...CPB-PBS Partnership Agreement, 1973
After three years of conflict between PBS and Nixon Administration appointees at CPB, the boards of the two organizations reached this agreement, securing ...
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