Quick Takes
House debate on Continuing Resolution – including CPB funding – set to begin Tuesday
Debate has been set to start Tuesday (Feb. 15) on H.R. 1, the Continuing Resolution (CR) that would keep the federal government ...CPB, APTS, NPR and PBS react to House Appropriations bill to zero out pubcasting support
Public broadcasting’s so-called “G4” – CPB, PBS, the Association of Public Television Stations advocacy organization and NPR – today (Feb. 12) issued comments ...Virginia Senate, House disagree on $2.7 million for public broadcasting
Virginia legislators have lots to talk about before agreeing on a budget, and that includes public broadcasting. The Senate restored $2.7 million ...Word World declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy
In 2005, WTTW’s proposed preschool literacy show Word World was a surprise recipient of more than $7 million in Ready to Learn funding from the U.S. ...House members ask colleagues to preserve CPB funding
Twenty members of the House of Representatives on Thursday (Feb. 10) urged their colleagues to sign a letter of support for public ...MoveOn.org takes up pubcasting funding fight
The progressive website MoveOn.org has a petition on its site supporting public broadcasting as the debate on federal funding nears. From the ...Berkman’s Online Media Legal Network to assist nonprofit investigative journos
The Berkman Center’s Online Media Legal Network will collaborate with the Investigative News Network (INN) to help its member nonprofit news organizations find pro bono and ...Influential pioneer of pubcasting Robert Schenkkan dies at 93
Robert F. Schenkkan, who worked with President Lyndon Johnson on the 1967 act that established CPB and was one of “the Six ...Advocacy journalism conference coming soon
Spaces are quickly filling for the “Advocacy Journalism in the Digital Age” conference March 1 at the Newseum. The Ford Foundation and ...PBS brings in new institutional giving director for its foundation
Karen Avery, former director of foundation relations at the Smithsonian, is the new senior director of institutional giving at the PBS Foundation, ...Obama to back voluntary spectrum auctions in speech today
President Obama will unveil his Wireless Innovation and Infrastructure Initiative in a speech today (Feb. 9) at Northern Michigan University at Marquette, ...West Virginia lawmakers take up bill on private fundraising for state pubcasting network
Legislation authorizing the West Virginia Educational Broadcasting Authority to continue soliciting donations through its private nonprofit fundraising organizations is coming up for ...New Jersey Network transfer bumped to July 1
New Jersey officials expect to transfer the New Jersey Network pubcasting network to a new overseer on July 1, three months later ...PBS Memorial Day concert work wins Writers Guild Award
Television writer Joan Meyerson has won a Writers Guild Award for her work on PBS’s 2010 National Memorial Day Concert. She also ...APTS mobilizes stations as House vote nears on pubcasting funding
Anticipating a floor vote to eliminate funding for public broadcasting next week, the Association for Public Television Stations today (Feb. 9) ...
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