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Wake Forest University faculty committee report on WFDD conflict, 2000
Five months after the conflict developed between Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and its public radio station, WFDD, the faculty’s Senate Ad ...NPR Underwriting Guidelines, as of 2000
Undated document supplied by NPR, January 2000. No Commercial Obligations or Influence NPR is an independent, nonprofit organization that carries no on-air advertising. One ...Commissioners’ statements on WQED second station decision, 1999
FCC members approved the proposed sale of WQED’s second station, WQEX, in a split vote. See also the text of the order, ...FCC order accepts transfer of WQED’s second station, 1999
On Dec. 15, 1999, the FCC approved a swap/sale deal that would have enabled Pittsburgh public TV station WQED to sell its ...Saudek’s Omnibus: ambitious forerunner of public TV
When producer Robert Saudek died in 1998, his New York Times obituary called him “the alchemist-in-chief of what is often called the golden age ...Wingspread Conference Statement of Principles
"Credibility is the currency of our programming."Seize the diversity market: a pragmatic view
With the search for Ervin Duggan’s successor now underway, public broadcasting has an opportunity to reflect on how the next PBS president ...Carnegie I: Membership, preface of report, 1967
The Carnegie Commission on Educaational Television, a 15-member panel created in 1965 by a major foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, ...Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Public Broadcasting
Summary of Recommendations, July 1993 These are the recommendations of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Public Television, released in the ...DEI recommendations for mailing list guidelines
After stations’ list practices exploded as a political issue, an organization of public radio fundraisers, the Development Exchange, issued this advice written ...CPB Mail List and Partisan Political Activities Requirements
CPB released these new rules for its grantees on July 30, 1999, after two weeks of controversy prompted by press reports that ...FCC denies former staffers’ nonrenewal request for KPTS, Wichita
The FCC decided in July 1999 that it did not have grounds to get involved in an extended staff-management conflict at public ...Electronic genes: an important part of America’s cultural DNA
One witness the congressmen didn’t lecture about donor-list improprieties at a House telecom subcommittee hearing July 20 [1999], was documentarian Ken Burns, ...Congress reacts hotly to station donor-list swaps with Democrats
Suddenly, pubcasting is in for a severe talking-to, if not a whupping. The House subcommittee that held such a congenial hearing on ...Code of Fair Practices for Working with Freelance Radio Producers, 1999
This code was published in June 1999 by the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR) and the Producers’ Advocacy Group (PAG) to ...
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