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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 ...Two separate funding plans go up to the Hill
Pubcasters have given Congress two separate proposals for future funding of the field: one from CPB and the other a joint effort ...Feds reconsider PTFP grant policy questioned by Sen. Helms
After questioning by Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), the National Telecommunications and Information Administration has begun an internal review of its refusal of ...Local talks and new national rules aim to end wasteful overlap of stations
From here on out, it will be a lot harder to volunteer a public broadcasting station into existence. For a quarter-century, you mainly ...House leader demands a plan; Senate backs higher numbers
Having emerged from the first 100 days of the 104th Congress with most of its advance funding intact, public broadcasting is entering ...
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