System/Policy
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 ...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, ...
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