Tag: CPB
Pacifica misses CPB deadlines, holding up funding for stations
CPB has withheld financial support for the Pacifica Foundation’s five radio stations after the organization missed deadlines for fixing errors and shortcomings ...The Future of Media Leadership: A Storify
Follow the conversation around the next generation of public media leaders with Current's Storify of the June 14 forum.Gains, losses spread unevenly across pubcasting stations
Reductions in tax-based support for pubcasting have shortened the financial gap between public television and radio stations, accelerating public TV’s decade-long financial ...CPB recognizes Moore, an author and youth advocate, as a pubcasting “Thought Leader”
Wes Moore, the host of Beyond Belief on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network and author of the bestseller The Other Wes Moore, won CPB’s Thought Leader Award, ...CPB expands Ready to Learn with additional $110K to four projects
CPB announced today it will grant a total of $110,000 to four licensees for them to expand local outreach related to pubTV's ...APTS chief sees renewed battle over CPB aid
APTS President Patrick Butler is warning public broadcasters of continued threats to their federal funding this summer as Congress takes up work ...Appropriation cuts lead to layoffs and furloughs throughout CPB
CPB has laid off 12 employees and eliminated three vacant positions in a downsizing prompted by the federal budget sequestration and other ...Audio diarists share new stories in Teenage Diaries Revisited
Beginning May 6 on NPR's All Things Considered, listeners will hear five voices from the past that may have a familiar ring. They’re a ...NEA announces 2013 media arts grants; OVEE and AIR projects among recipients
The National Endowment of the Arts announced $4.68 million in funding to 76 media-arts projects April 23, including new grantees such as ...Nine GOP House members express support for federal aid to CPB, PTFP
In the past week, members of Congress have sent two bipartisan letters in support of public broadcasting initiatives to subcommittee chairs in ...CPB accepts policy revamp proposal from radio CSG panel; first changes since 2005
The CPB Board on April 22 unanimously approved changes to its Radio Community Service Grants program for fiscal 2014, including phased-in hikes ...Ready to Learn builds on digital-learning push with new station grants
The Ready to Learn program backing educational media and outreach for children ages 2 to 8 is making digital learning through community ...Obama would maintain CPB funding, eliminate rural digital grants in 2014 budget proposal
President Obama released his fiscal 2014 federal budget proposal April 10, and recommended $445 million in two-year advance funding for CPB. This ...New talking point on Capitol Hill: PubTV’s role in education
Public television’s strongest case for preserving tax-based support for stations and CPB centers on informing political leaders about the full range of ...West Virginia’s Bob Wise receives Thought Leader Award
Former West Virginia Governor Bob Wise was honored for his work supporting public media’s educational service. Wise is president of the Alliance for ...
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