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APTS recognizes Barbara Mikulksi and Greg Walden, gives innovation and advocacy awards
The Association of Public Television Stations handed out Champions of Public Broadcasting awards during its Public Media Summit in Washington, D.C., Feb ...APTS congressional champion delivers ‘tough love’ to pubTV leaders
A radio broadcaster-turned lawmaker who chairs a key House subcommittee with oversight of CPB delivered a pointed critique to public TV station ...Putting more public service into public media at 2013 APTS Summit
Representatives from four sectors of the public service community made a case for more partnerships with public television during the opening session ...Mikulski, friend of pubcasters, will chair Senate Appropriations Committee
Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) is replacing the recently deceased Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, where she will ...Presidential sparring puts pubcasting in political bull’s-eye
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s pledge to defund PBS, which he reiterated during the Oct. 3 televised presidential debate, set off a ...Noncom groups file comments on FCC’s third-party fundraising proposal
NPR, PBS and the Association of Public Television Stations are among broadcast organizations weighing in with the FCC on its April proposal ...APTS combats latest bids to defund CPB
Two of pubcasting’s chief critics on Capitol Hill have revived their bids to end CPB funding. Republican lawmakers Rep. Doug Lamborn (Colo.) ...Mundt to NPR, APM lays off Alvarado, Pulitzer-winning cartoonist joins WHYY, and more…
NPR has hired Todd Mundt as editorial director for NPR Digital Services In his new position, Mundt will help stations develop digital ...At APTS summit, public TV remembers which way ‘up’ is
“What a difference a year makes,” Patrick Butler, president of the Association of Public Television Stations, told the crowd at the group’s ...APTS operating without dues from 1/4 of stations
A drop in dues-paying members over the last three years has diminished the resources of the Association of Public Television Stations at ...Public Media Association: NPR and APTS form ‘unified’ lobbying effort during NPR’s troubles, February 2011
Memos to public radio stations’ Authorized Representatives (AReps) from NPR and APTS about the Public Media Alliance, a new combined TV and ...Soon off to war for APTS: new president, Pat Butler
Patrick Butler, public TV’s new chief lobbyist, wrote speeches for President Gerald Ford, was a founder of the Pew Research Center, and ...Adrift, mute and helpless
Why everyone but public broadcasters is making federal policy for public media The FCC’s recent National Broadband Plan and its Future of the ...APTS Awards for 2009
The Association of Public Television Stations thanked advocates beyond the D.C. Beltway APTS gave its David J. Brugger Grassroots Advocacy Award to Dr. ...Public TV takes note: health care bills have billions for education
Health-care legislation now pending in Congress may be one of the best new sources of support for public-service content, public TV’s lobbyists ...
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