System/Policy
Consultants advise spending shift to strengthen national PTV programs
A bold strategic study for public TV, commissioned by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, recommends that stations spend less on local program ...ITVS taps head
The Independent TV Service, the organization established by Congress to distribute $6 million in production grants to independent television producers, has selected ...Larry to the third power
Lawrence Daressa, Laurence Hall and Lawrence Sapadin are the collective mind and spirit behind the Independent Television Service, designed this year to ...CPB ends dispute with ITVS
The new Independent Television Service and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have settled their differences over CPB’s financial support of the organization. ...Quarrel kicks off new ITVS
Independent producers and officials of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have established the new independent television service with another quarrel. The two parties ...Producers, CPB name fund panel
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and independent producers have agreed to an 11-member board of directors to head the Independent Television Service. ...House committee approves independent program service for public TV
The House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday approved a public broadcasting funding bill that would create a separate program service for independent ...Public broadcasting’s unholy link to politics
A 1985 blowup over a trip to Moscow revealed that political animals were again entrusted with shielding public TV from political pressureGAO statement on NPR financial crisis, 1984
NPR was shaken, President Frank Mankiewicz and other top managers toppled and some 60 staffers laid off in the network’s 1983 financial ...JFK: facilities act will help lower barriers to education, 1962
Statement by President John Kennedy, May 1, 1962, upon signing the Educational Television Act, Public Law 87-447 (76 Stat. 64), which provided ...
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