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Wireless Technology Investment and Digital Dividends Act, 2002
On May 2, 2002, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) introduced a bill to authorize the investment of spectrum auction proceeds in public-service ...University of North Carolina Television Q&A on equity in CPB and PBS formulas
UNC-TV released this Q&A to explain its request for changes in the formulas for CPB grants and PBS dues that it took ...What Jon Rice gave to viewers and to friends
Jon might say that his prime legacy is this television station. What Jim Day and Jon Rice created from nothing more than ...Ten Tenets from MPR News, 2001
1) We believe standards matter. We don’t compete with tabloid television, shock-jock radio, or the kind of newspapers found at supermarket check-out ...The Declaration of Interdependence, 2001
Facing the first major station struggle of her 16 months as PBS president — over the perennial public TV issue of common ...What’s all this I hear about ‘social capital’?
Can you remember when you first heard the word “paradigm”? All of sudden everything was “paradigms” — shifting, evolving or disappearing . ...‘For listeners, we’re not the alternative, we’re the ideal’
CPB broke format in May 2001, giving its top radio honor, the Edward R. Murrow Award, to one of its own employees, ...AIR Code Of Fair Practices for Working with Freelance Radio Producers
Issued by the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR) and the Producers’ Advocacy Group, June 1999, and revised Jan. 23, 2001. PDF. INTRODUCTION: ...Geller to FCC: scrap the rules, try a spectrum fee
More than three years after promising digital channels to broadcasters, the FCC held a hearing Oct. 16, 2000, about what the broadcasters ...Stations’ Forum petition seeks to reorganize PBS, October 2000
The National Forum for Public Television Executives, meeting in Dallas Oct. 2-4, 2000, agreed upon the following petition to put before the ...Will Senate loosen definition of ‘educational’ channels?
Public broadcasters are ramping up efforts to secure support of their position in the Senate after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved ...Bills to protect religious broadcasters on reserved channels, 2000
In 2000, members of Congress introduced four bills to head off FCC restrictions on religious broadcasters using reserved TV channels. The issue ...Reduction of fine to WTTW for underwriting violations, 2000
In March 2000, the FCC reduced its 1997 fine of public TV station WTTW, finding that three of the four underwriting credits ...Temporary Commission on Alternative Financing, 1993
The Temporary Commission on Alternative Financing for Public Telecommunications (TCAF) delivered its recommendations to Congress on Oct. 1, 1983, after extensive ...By-laws of Public Broadcasting Service, 2000
This is the PBS Board’s governing document as amended Feb. 6, 2000. For comparison, see also the original PBS bylaws of 1969, ...
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