Tag: CPB
Clinton budget backs appropriations for CPB and endowments but would terminate equipment grant program
The White House requests a 30% increase in CPB's appropriation in fiscal 2000 while proposing to zero out PTFP.Having ‘done the job,’ Carlson will depart CPB
Richard Carlson, a Republican credited with defending public broadcasting from attacks by members of his party, announced Jan. 24 that he will ...Citizens’ group organizes to back full CPB funding
A professional campaign firm has begun setting up a Citizens’ Committee for Public Broadcasting to coordinate grassroots support for “full funding” of ...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 ...How much of the funding gap would individuals fill?
In this time of unprecedented threat to public broadcasting, people are responding with unprecedented generosity to station’s pleas for support. TV station ...‘Tell them Newt asked you to help’
Fundraising pitches by House Speaker Newt Gingrich drew unprecedented media coverage and helped to boost March pledge receipts at WPBA, Atlanta, home-town ...Pressler gets three boxes of especially dry reading
Public broadcasting’s response to a detailed inquiry by Sen. Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) arrived on Capitol Hill the evening of Feb. 10 [1995], ...Pressler gets three boxes of especially dry reading
Public broadcasting’s response to a detailed inquiry by Sen. Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) arrived on Capitol Hill the evening of Feb. 10, accompanied ...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 ...All those letters — what do they mean to Congress?
For an industry that has “elitist” planted on its back like a hard-to-reach sticky label, the most critical piece of public broadcasting’s ...Pressler stocking up on ammunition
An inquiry by Sen. Larry Pressler last week put public broadcasters on notice that they face hostile scrutiny during Senate consideration of ...Congress emphasizes CPB’s ‘objectivity and balance’ obligations, 1992
CPB from its start had always had responsibility for ensuring “objectivity and balance” in programming that it funded, but on June 2, ...ITVS issues first round of grants
...The announcement is a landmark in a long struggle for public TV producers outside of stations to gain an official place in ...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 ...
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