Public Media Policybase
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 ...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. ...The Public Radio Study, 1969
This study — partially funded by CPB and the Ford Foundation during CPB’s first year and released in April 1969 — recommended ...The Public Radio Study, 1969
Summary and Recommendations This study — partially funded by CPB during its first year and released in April 1969 — recommended creation of ...Proposal on Formation of the Public Television Network, 1968
What kind of organization should interconnect the public TV stations? On Sept. 23, 1968, a little more than a year before the ...Carnegie I: Members, Preface and Introductory Note, 1967
A 15-member commission created in 1965 by a major foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, released its report, Public Television: A Program ...Carnegie Commission on Educational Television, ‘Public Television: A Program for Action,’ 1967
A 15-member commission created in 1965 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York released its report, “Public Television: A Program for Action,” on ...Public Television: A Program for Action, Carnegie I, Summary, 1967
A 15-member commission created in 1965 by a major foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, released its report, Public Television: A Program ...Carnegie I: E.B. White’s letter to the first Carnegie Commission
In this letter to the first Carnegie Commission, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker magazine essayist (1899-1985) gives one of the most compact and eloquent ...Educational Television Progress Report, Sen. Warren Magnuson, 1965
Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.), then chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, laid out the case for federal aid to public broadcasting ...Educational Television Progress Report, Sen. Warren Magnuson, 1965
Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.), then chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, laid out the case for federal aid to public broadcasting in ...President Kennedy, 1962: Facilities act will help put unused educational TV channels on the air
Statement by President John F. Kennedy, May 1, 1962, upon signing the Educational Television Facilities Act, Public Law 87-447 (76 Stat. 64), which ...Educational Television Facilities Act of 1962
With this law, signed by President Kennedy on May 1, 1962, Congress gave the first major federal aid to public broadcasting. The ...David M. Davis memo, 1958: ‘This will not be just another television program’
David M. Davis, an early TV production executive at Boston’s WGBH, pushes his producers to excel in a 1958 memo. He later ...
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