Tag: Federal funding
Public Broadcasting Act of 1967
Public Law 90-129, 90th Congress, November 7, 1967 (as amended to April 26, 1968) This law was enacted less than 10 months after ...Accounting problems cost WNET $1 for every $7 in federal grants
WNET’s accounting problems have cost it $1.96 million out of a series of production grants totaling $13 million, following a two-year federal ...Congress allots $25 million ‘stabilization’ aid to stations
The number was a compromise between the House’s $40 million figure and the Senate’s $10 million.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 ...‘Sloppiness,’ not wrongdoing, led to probe, says WNET chair
The leadership of WNET said a federal investigation into the station’s use of federal grants totaling almost $13 million is wrapping up, ...New CPB chair sees watershed for public media
Maybe we’re at a 1967 moment again,” says Ernest Wilson III, shortly after his election as chair of the Corporation for Public ...Shadows in the corridors
The scene: a small conference room of the Senate Committee on Commerce, late on a February afternoon. The players: a senior committee staffer ...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.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 ...Public ranks pubcasting high in value per dollar
In a Roper Poll taken March 18-25, Americans ranked public TV and public radio among the services that provide the best value for ...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 ...House leader demands a plan; Senate backs higher numbers
Having emerged from the first 100 days of the 104th Congress with most of its advance funding intact, public broadcasting is entering ...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, accompanied ...
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