Tag: CPB
Annenberg comes back with $60 million
Walter H. Annenberg has returned to CPB with $60 million—and a revised educational purpose — a year and a half after pulling ...Consultants advise spending shift to strengthen national PTV programs
A bold strategic study for public TV, commissioned by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, recommends that stations spend less on local program ...Larry to the third power
Lawrence Daressa, Laurence Hall and Lawrence Sapadin are the collective mind and spirit behind the Independent Television Service, designed this year to ...Quarrel kicks off new ITVS
Independent producers and officials of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have established the new independent television service with another quarrel. The two parties ...House committee approves independent program service for public TV
The House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday approved a public broadcasting funding bill that would create a separate program service for independent ...Public broadcasting’s unholy link to politics
A 1985 blowup over a trip to Moscow revealed that political animals were again entrusted with shielding public TV from political pressureCPB budget allocation formula,1981
Congress limited CPB’s discretion in spending the federal appropriation. The corporation’s authorizing law imposes a budget allocation formula that divides the appropriation ...Nixon Administration Public Broadcasting Papers, Summary of 1971
A major part of OTP’s activity in 1971 involved the development of a long-term financing bill for CPB. However, because of disagreements ...Nixon Administration Public Broadcasting Papers, 1969-1974 — Introduction
These memos from the Nixon Administration cover a period of peak conflict between the White House and public broadcasting. The documents were ...Nixon’s FCC chair, Dean Burch, supports matching federal aid
Statement of Dean Burch, chair of the Federal Communications Commission, before the Subcommittee on Communications of the Senate Committee on Commerce on ...The Public Radio Study, 1969
This study — partially funded by CPB and the Ford Foundation during CPB’s first year and released in April 1969 — recommended ...The Public Radio Study, 1969
Summary and Recommendations This study — partially funded by CPB during its first year and released in April 1969 — recommended creation of ...CPB-PBS Partnership Agreement, 1973
After three years of conflict between PBS and Nixon Administration appointees at CPB, the boards of the two organizations reached this agreement, securing ...
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