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Public view on CPB funding: favorable but also ‘soft’
Three polls taken last month gave majorities of 62 to 84 percent favoring CPB’s federal funding. Then, a few days later, comes ...Spare that living tree
The little town where I grew up — Manning, S.C. — was small enough that we could walk to church on Sunday. ...Arts on public television: signatures of past, present and generations to come
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein wowed a lunchtime audience at the Public Television Annual Meeting in June 1994 with her personal testimonial ...‘The difference is that public TV serves a country, not a market’
This article is based on remarks by Marshall Turner, then chair of the CPB Board, at the board’s Jan. 27, 1994, meeting. ...History-makers tour new archives
The old-timers wandered curiously among the shelves, munching cookies and poking into file boxes, looking casually for their footprints in the history ...At reunion, early leaders of public broadcasting express pride about past, concern for future
The man who put New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia on the radio, reading the comics during a newspaper strike — M.S. “Morrie” ...Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Public Broadcasting
These are the recommendations of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Public Television, released in the July 1993 report Quality Time? The complete ...Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Public Broadcasting
These are the recommendations of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Public Television, released in the July 1993 report Quality Time? The complete ...To bring exuberant life to the country’s most important public space
When President Clinton had just taken office in 1993, Current asked an assortment of outside-the-Beltway people connected with public broadcasting to write open letters ...To empower active citizens with knowledge, locally as well as nationally
When President Clinton had just taken office in 1993, Current asked an assortment of outside-the-Beltway people connected with public broadcasting to write open ...To serve as a catalyst in making our cities work
When President Clinton had just taken office in 1993, Current asked an assortment of outside-the-Beltway people connected with public broadcasting to write open ...Local programs: our niche, and it’s a mile wide
In the spring of 1991, a management consulting firm advised public TV to shift its spending from local to national programs. Current asked ...‘The only place where you have a measure of creative control’
Documentary-maker Ken Burns told why he’s continuing to work with public broadcasting at the Television Critics Association press tour in Los Angeles ...Congress emphasizes CPB’s ‘objectivity and balance’ obligations, 1992
CPB from its start had always had responsibility for ensuring “objectivity and balance” in programming that it funded, but on June 2, ...Bylaws of Independent Television Service Inc.
Following up on 1988 legislation that they had lobbied for, independent producers and their advocates incorporated ITVS in 1969 [see Articles of ...