Tag: CPB
CPB to replace Cox as president
CPB announced Friday it will replace President Kathleen Cox, its president for 10 months. She had been predecessor Robert Coonrod’s No. 2 executive ...Two ombudsmen will assist CPB in oversight role
CPB will have not just one but two longtime journalists as ombudsmen, the corporation announced April 5. Ken Bode, former host of ...Radio gets in on the Act
The plan was for a Public Television Act with no mention of dusty old radio. Not everyone signed on to the plan.CPB’s TV Future Fund was illegal, GAO finds
A long-anticipated report on public television by the General Accounting Office, released May 21, advises Congress that CPB illegally diverted money intended for stations ...Did CPB reallocate money illegally to create the Future Funds?
Under the spending formula imposed on CPB by Congress in 1981, does the corporation have the authority to spend some of the ...Coonrod’s plan works: Cox will head CPB
Kathleen A. Cox will step up from chief operating officer of CPB, becoming the corporation’s first woman ...TV Future Fund will die, but R&D thrust lives on at CPB
The Television Future Fund is dead, long live the Television Future Fund. CPB will discontinue the R&D fund this fall, redirecting about $4 ...Pubradio guide advises broad application of news ethics
A revised ethics guide for public radio asks journalists to "remain reportorial" instead of spouting opinions when they're off the air, and ...Moyers a flash point in balance talks led by CPB
CPB has revived debate within public TV about balance and fairness in public affairs programs, citing specifically Bill Moyers’ dual roles of host and ...Public broadcasting system revenues, 1982–2003
The system’s revenues passed $2 billion late in the 1990s and $2.3 billion during fiscal year 2003, the latest year for which ...CPB will focus on three initiatives to assist public TV
Wielding a grim financial analysis of public TV by a big-name consulting firm, CPB has begun a campaign to glue together a ...Hull pursues personal history, 72 years ago in Rapid City
Now that he’s retiring, Ron Hull has time to find out who he is. Not that he or anyone else in public TV ...Public radio hails Rick Madden for life’s work
Rick Madden, who helped to reinvent public radio during 19 years at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, succumbed to brain cancer Feb. 21. He ...House hearing loomed as CPB panel rushed to fix grant rules
As Congress threatened to convene a hearing on how CPB distributes its money, a public TV review panel released a proposal last ...‘For listeners, we’re not the alternative, we’re the ideal’
CPB broke format in May 2001, giving its top radio honor, the Edward R. Murrow Award, to one of its own employees, ...
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