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Nixon Administration Public Broadcasting Papers, Summary of 1974
Nineteen seventy-four was marked by Richard Nixon’s departure from the White House and Whitehead’s resignation as OTP Director. Shortly before resigning the ...Nixon Administration Public Broadcasting Papers, Summary of 1969
When Richard Nixon took office in January 1969, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) was in its infancy and the Office of ...Nixon Administration Public Broadcasting Papers, Summary of 1972
Nineteen seventy-two saw President Richard Nixon veto funding for public broadcasting. In the wake of Nixon’s veto, Frank Pace Jr. and John ...Nixon Administration Public Broadcasting Papers, Summary of 1970
The Nixon Administration continued to develop its position on public broadcasting in 1970. While doing so, it proposed a new three-year authorization ...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 ...Carnegie II’s preface to ‘A Public Trust’
In 1977, 10 years after the original Carnegie Commission recommended federal aid to public television, the Carnegie Corporation of New York created a ...Carnegie II: Findings, recommendations and membership
In 1977, a decade after the first Carnegie Commission endorsed federal aid to noncommercial TV, the Carnegie Corporation of New York created ...FCC v. Pacifica Foundation et al., 1978
438 U.S. 726 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION v. PACIFICA FOUNDATION ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT ...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 ...Nixon’s FCC chair, Dean Burch, supports matching federal aid
Statement of Dean Burch, chair of the Federal Communications Commission, before the Subcommittee on Communications of the Senate Committee on Commerce on ...National Public Radio, Inc., By-Laws, 1970
NPR’s original bylaws were put into effect when it was incorporated on Feb. 26, 1970. ARTICLE I. Name The Corporation shall be known as NATIONAL ...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 ...Public Broadcasting Service By-Laws, 1969
On Nov. 11, 1969, eight days after a quartet of public broadcasters signed PBS’s Articles of Incorporation, they adopted these initial bylaws. ...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 ...‘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 ...
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