System/Policy
Public view on CPB funding: favorable but also ‘soft’
Three polls taken last month gave majorities of 62 to 84 percent favoring CPB’s federal funding. Then, a few days later, comes ...Pubcasting finds itself put ‘in play’ — briefly
When public broadcasters awoke on Jan. 23 [1995], they saw the headlines and their heads started spinning. Newspapers reported that Bell Atlantic ...Gingrich wants to ‘zero-out’ federal funding to CPB
House Speaker-designate Newt Gingrich said on his weekly cable TV show last week that he wants to “zero-out” CPB funding this year. ...At 10, Station Resource Group has more for Tom and Terry to do
You seldom hear that members of an association are voluntarily doubling their dues, but that’s about what the Station Resource Group is ...Court backs NTIA in Fordham case
When the new administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration drew a “bright line” against equipment grants to a station that ...Twentieth Century Fund panel seeks more federal aid for PTV, but would halt CPB grants ...
With the warning that public television must “reinvent itself” if it is to “meet the needs of the American public in the ...PTFP policy review prompted by station with Sunday mass
The public radio station at a Catholic university has applied for a Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP) grant after being told the ...Palm Beach station staff pushes out chairman
In a series of dramatic events covered avidly by local news media, the staff of Palm Beach’s public TV/radio licensee last month ...What does it cost to air a Sunday Mass?
At WFUV-FM, a public radio station licensed to Fordham University in the Bronx, the 25-year-old studio soundboard needs to be replaced, and ...Scholar comes from Right to diagnose public TV
A scholar working with the right-wing Heritage Foundation is looking into ways to improve public TV, privatizing it if necessary. Laurence Jarvik, ...Independent TV Service and CPB finally sign accord
The Independent Television Service and CPB signed a long-delayed contract that will pass $23 million of federal money to the St. Paul-based ...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. ...
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