Tag: Federal funding
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 ...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 ...Twentieth Century Fund panel seeks more federal aid for PTV, but would halt CPB grants ...
With the warning that public television must “reinvent itself” if it is to “meet the needs of the American public in the ...Scholar comes from Right to diagnose public TV
A scholar working with the right-wing Heritage Foundation is looking into ways to improve public TV, privatizing it if necessary. Laurence Jarvik, ...The Hidden Medium: A Status Report on Educational Radio in the United States, 1967
With support building for federal aid to public TV, the advocates of public radio found they had to act quickly to make their ...Educational Television Progress Report, Sen. Warren Magnuson, 1965
Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.), then chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, laid out the case for federal aid to public broadcasting ...
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