Public Media Policybase
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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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: ...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 ...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 ...
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