Tag: First Amendment
Why it’s a big deal that the latest episode of NPR’s ‘Embedded’ includes audio from ...
A narrow challenge to a law banning broadcasts of criminal proceedings may help expand journalists’ ability to cover trials.Dismissals at Alabama PTV linked to concerns over proposed broadcast of videos from religious right
See also more complete story from print edition of June 25, 2012. Two top managers at Alabama Public Television were fired from ...Alabama commission revises APTV’s mission statement, 2012
See also Current coverage. Alabama network’s mission statement before the Alabama Educational Television Commission revised it June 12, 2012 Alabama Public Television Mission, ...Editorializing prohibited in Public Broadcasting Act
The act says: "No noncommercial educational broadcasting station may engage in editorializing or may support or oppose any candidate for political office."‘Hasty mistake’ at WFDD prompts talk of ideals
For the faculty of Wake Forest University, the hush order given to reporters at the ...Wake Forest University faculty committee report on WFDD conflict, 2000
Five months after the conflict developed between Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and its public radio station, WFDD, the faculty’s Senate Ad ...High court upholds authority of Arkansas network in debate case
The broadcast decision that embroiled Arkansas ETV in a landmark First Amendment struggle ever since 1992 was “a reasonable, viewpoint-neutral exercise of ...Feds reconsider PTFP grant policy questioned by Sen. Helms
After questioning by Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), the National Telecommunications and Information Administration has begun an internal review of its refusal of ...Court backs NTIA in Fordham case
When the new administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration drew a “bright line” against equipment grants to a station that ...Fordham station sues for PTFP grant eligibility
Reportedly denied eligibility for a federal equipment grant because it carries one church service a week, Fordham University’s WFUV-FM has sued the ...What does it cost to air a Sunday Mass?
At WFUV-FM, a public radio station licensed to Fordham University in the Bronx, the 25-year-old studio soundboard needs to be replaced, and ...
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