Public Media Policybase
CPB budget allocation formula, 1981
In 1981, Congress significantly restricted the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s decision-making on spending, funneling fixed percentages of CPB’s federal appropriation to specific ...Public Radio Program Directors Association Inc., Bylaws, 2008
Revised and adopted Sept. 15, 2008 ARTICLE I. BASIC POLICY It is the basic policy of the corporation to be noncommercial, educational, nonsectarian and ...Ford Foundation spending for educational broadcasting, fiscal years 1951-76
The Ford Foundation was noncommercial television’s first big funder, years before Congress contributed large sums — supporting efforts to acquire reserved channels, ...Editorializing prohibited in Public Broadcasting Act
The act says: "No noncommercial educational broadcasting station may engage in editorializing or may support or oppose any candidate for political office."CPB/PBS Diversity and Innovation Fund weekly series RFP
Three years after Latino activists bitterly criticized Ken Burns’s The War for omitting interviews with Hispanic soldiers and sailors, CPB and PBS concluded negotiations ...With RFP, PBS pursues ‘Explorer Archetype’ in productions
From PBS’s June 2010 request for primetime series proposals to be funded by the CPB/PBS Diversity and Innovation Fund. See also Current feature ...Latino producers object: PBS diversity data ‘incomplete and often anecdotal’
The Diversity Committee of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers sent this letter to PBS about its November 2008 Report on ...Latino producers to PBS: Diversity data ‘incomplete and often anecdotal’
The Diversity Committee of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers sent this letter to PBS about its November 2008 Report on ...Field guide to CPB’s conflicting mandates
When Congress adopted the Public Broadcasting Act 40 years go, it put its contribution to public TV and radio into the hands ...Florida, Minnesota donors question sale of favorite stations
Fans of two now-defunct college stations are pursuing legal actions against the sale of the stations to Minnesota-based American Public Media Group.Two ...Latino critics of The War seek assurance from PBS, WETA
Advocacy groups protesting Ken Burns’ upcoming World War II doc asked PBS and WETA in Washington, D.C., Aug. 20 [2007] for assurance ...Minority consortia to PBS: PubTV’s ‘stunning lack of diversity’ allowed the Burns flap to occur
Public broadcasting’s five CPB-funded minority consortia sent this letter to PBS President Paula Kerger on April 9, 2007. Dear Paula: I’m writing ...Indecency’s winding road, 1978-2006
July 3, 1978 FCC v. Pacifica Foundation: The Supreme Court upheld the FCC’s right to ban indecent speech when children could be expected ...NPR announces Working Group to consider Digital Distribution Consortium, 2006
NPR exec Ken Stern sent this memo to public radio stations’ Authorized Representatives as a followup to the New Realities Forum in ...Moyers: ‘The best is yet to come . . . I am an optimist’
Text of Bill Moyers’ speech May 18, 2006, at the PBS Showcase Conference, Orlando, Fla. He spoke after PBS gave him its ...
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