Why public media?
Hundt: System needs openness of 4 kinds
Attorney and former FCC chairman Reed Hundt , a co-chair of the PBS-appointed Digital Future Initiative, previewed his thinking in a Current commentary seven ...Barksdale: Make literacy your mission
Corporate leader and philanthropist James Barksdale, a co-chair of the PBS-appointed Digital Future Initiative, previewed his thinking in a Current commentary seven months before ...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 ...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, ...‘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 ...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 ...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, ...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 ...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 ...Seize the diversity market: a pragmatic view
With the search for Ervin Duggan’s successor now underway, public broadcasting has an opportunity to reflect on how the next PBS president ...Electronic genes: an important part of America’s cultural DNA
One witness the congressmen didn’t lecture about donor-list improprieties at a House telecom subcommittee hearing July 20 [1999], was documentarian Ken Burns, ...Show me a better deal than public TV
Two years after the CPB funding crisis began to subside, public TV’s assigned public-policy representative, the president of America’s Public Television Stations ...After all we’ve done, think how much more we can do
In his keynote address at the PBS Annual Meeting, June 22, 1997, David McCullough celebrated the value of history, the joy of ...
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