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University Licensee Association, Charter of Association, amended May 2005
The association includes public broadcasting stations licensed to colleges and universities — largely public TV or TV/radio joint licensees. It is one ...Lehrer expects to feel some heat: ‘What we’re doing is kitchen work’
Jim Lehrer, co-founder and host of PBS’s NewsHour, spoke April 12, 2005, at the PBS Showcase meeting in Las Vegas, where he accepted ...Radio gets in on the Act
The plan was for a Public Television Act with no mention of dusty old radio. Not everyone signed on to the plan.Secretary of Education objects to Postcards from Buster ‘two moms’ episode, 2005
Margaret Spellings, secretary of education in George W. Bush’s administration, complained to PBS in 2005 about an episode of the animated Postcards from ...National Educational Telecommunications Association Bylaws
NETA, a successor of Southern Educational Communications Association, provides a range of services to public TV professionals and stations, including program distribution, ...Native radio: at the heart of public radio’s mission
Ride the school bus on the Hopi Reservation in northern Arizona and you’ll hear Shooting Stars, a program for kids produced mostly ...Why public television?: Public TV’s mission statement, 2004
Public TV stations adopted this statement of mission at the PBS Members Meeting, Feb. 23, 2004. For more information. See also Current‘s coverage, ...Did CPB reallocate money illegally to create the Future Funds?
Under the spending formula imposed on CPB by Congress in 1981, does the corporation have the authority to spend some of the ...Pacifica Foundation Bylaws, 2003
After an all-out legal and public-relations war for control of the five-station Pacifica Radio chain and its national network, the winning activists ...CPB Goals and Objectives for fiscal year 2004
The CPB Board of Directors adopted these goals as part of the corporation’s fiscal year 2004 budget, July 22, 2003. I. LOCAL SERVICES ...PRNDI Statement of Ethics, 2003
This revised statement was adopted in July 2003 by Public Radio News Directors Inc., the association of journalists working in public radio. Public ...CPB Goals and Objectives, 2002
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting Board of Directors adopted this statement in November 2002, according to CPB. I. Local Services and Content Strengthen the ...CPB Goals and Objectives for fiscal year 2003
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting Board of Directors adopted this statement in November 2002. I. Local Services and Content Strengthen the value and viability ...‘Our place is to offer an alternative for those who still want to learn’
We should not be surprised that most of television enters our people and our body politic, not as food for thought, but ...Digital Opportunity Investment Trust Act, 2002
On June 10, 2002, Sens. Christopher Dodd and James Jeffords introduced a bill (S. 2603) to authorize the investment of spectrum auction ...
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