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Noncommercial DBS set-aside upheld in Time Warner v. FCC decision, 1996
This 1996 Circuit Court opinion upholds a provision of the 1992 Cable Act that mandates noncommercial educational or informational programming on 4-7 ...Noncomm DBS set-aside upheld in Time Warner v. FCC decision, 1996
This 1996 federal Circuit Court opinion upholds a provision of the 1992 Cable Act that mandates noncommercial educational or informational programming on ...Reservation of noncomm DBS channels upheld, 1996
This 1996 Circuit Court opinion upholds a provision of the 1992 Cable Act that mandates noncommercial educational or informational programming on 4-7 ...FCC refuses to de-reserve WQED’s second station, 1996
Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554 In the Matter of Deletion of Noncommercial Reservation of Channel *16, 482-488 MHz, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania MEMORANDUM ...The best of jobs: to have and serve the public’s trust
Bill Moyers’ keynote at the PBS Annual Meeting, June 23, 1996, grabbed many of the pubcasters where they live, and invited others ...Revisiting Brideshead Revisited
You may have recently reacquainted yourself with this classic public TV mini-series. The American Program Service and 20 stations have brought it ...Ralph P. Forbes v. Arkansas Educational Television, 1996
Ralph P. Forbes, and The People, Appellant, v. The Arkansas Educational Television Commission, and its Board of Directors in their Official Capacities; The ...Public Broadcasting Self-Sufficiency Act of 1996, H.R. 2979
Introduced by Rep. Jack Fields, 1996; no action taken A bill governing the phase-out of federal appropriations to CPB, introduced in the House, ...Frank Baxter, television’s first man of learning
Like Norman Corwin, the exceptional radio producer profiled in the last issue of Current, Frank Baxter had his great broadcast successes on the ...Educational Telecommunications: An Electronic Land Grant for the 21st Century
At the threshold of the new millennium, another Congress has the opportunity to allocate a portion of a precious national asset to ...America, I do mind dying
This commentary traces public broadcasting back to its earliest days and its root principles of populism and public education. Media historian Robert ...What we offer: the case distinguishing NPR news
A longtime NPR correspondent — then vice president in charge of the network’s news division — adapted this article from his remarks ...Who public radio broadcasters are: members of a congregation, with our listeners
This is the view from Martin Goldsmith, then host of NPR’s daily classical music program Performance Today, who served as announcer, producer and program ...Dear Impresario: Let’s recreate PBS as the citizens’ channel
In 1995, Current asked three of public TV’s highly regarded program-makers to write “Dear Impresario” letters to the next chief programmer at PBS ...Consultant to CPB: Public broadcasting is worth billions to the public
If public broadcasting loses its federal aid, it’s “highly unlikely” that it will recover the same amounts by increasing revenues from product ...
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