System/Policy
Clinton budget backs appropriations for CPB and endowments but would terminate equipment grant program
The White House requests a 30% increase in CPB's appropriation in fiscal 2000 while proposing to zero out PTFP.Having ‘done the job,’ Carlson will depart CPB
Richard Carlson, a Republican credited with defending public broadcasting from attacks by members of his party, announced Jan. 24 that he will ...WNYC’s Walker: ‘We need to be more New York’
Observers are watching hopefully as Laura Walker, the first CEO hired to run WNYC as a private entity, sets out to double ...Make it shorter and hang flags from it
The New York Botanical Garden, still fighting the completion of a nearby 480-foot tower for WFUV-FM, told the FCC late in October ...Can government employees be journalists?
Nebraska ETV canceled a senatorial debate broadcast in August [1996], and Iowa PTV was taken to court last month as the ripple ...Parenteau resigns Wichita position under staff pressure
One major issue remaining between staff and management is whether KPTS will rehire David Brewer, a 25-year staff member.Parenteau resigns Wichita position under staff pressure
After six weeks of intense conflict with the majority of his staff, the president of Wichita’s KPTS, Zoel Parenteau, resigned his position ...Wichita staff uprising forces v.p. resignation
Uneasy staff members have returned to their work at Wichita’s KPTS after demanding the firing of the station’s top two executives and ...Nothing’s easy in the Bronx, where botanists are tough
Fordham University’s WFUV has withstood for the third time a neighbor’s challenge to its plan to complete a 480-foot transmitting tower on ...Fields proposes trust fund but caps size at $1B
Federal appropriations to public broadcasting will end at close of business, Sept. 30, 2000, under the House Republican leadership’s proposal introduced Feb. ...CPB Board sets audience criteria for radio grants
With no vocal opposition to a CPB task force’s proposal to add audience size to the criteria for radio station grants, the ...Federal agency will help station build new tower despite broadcasts of Mass on Sundays
With its new transmission tower half built, WFUV-FM in New York City now has some more money to pay for it, after ...Duggan maps path to shared gains for system
PBS put forth a new framework for thinking about its relationship with member stations last week, asserting that they’re all in the ...Public ranks pubcasting high in value per dollar
In a Roper Poll taken March 18-25, Americans ranked public TV and public radio among the services that provide the best value for ...The plans that went to Congress
Here are brutally shortened summaries of proposals in the two funding plans that went to Congress in spring 1995: “Common Sense for ...
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