Tag: Ford Foundation
For doc funders, broadcast on public TV remains key
Foundation funders have plenty at stake in PBS’s pending decisions about scheduling and promoting independent films.Three Localore projects receive additional funding
The Association of Independents in Radio announced that three projects from the first round of its Localore initiative will receive additional funding ...Frontline receives nearly $6 million in two grants
Frontline, public television’s investigative news showcase, announced two major donations Wednesday, including the largest grant from individuals in its 30-year history. Most of ...Ford grant will support PRI’s immigration initiative
The Ford Foundation has awarded Public Radio International a two-year, $500,000 grant to support Global Nation, a project that will cover social-justice ...NYPR looking to boost coverage for classical station
New York Public Radio has applied to the FCC to acquire 90.3 FM in Ossining, N.Y., from community licensee Hudson Valley Community ...Ford backs for-profit newsroom
A recent Ford Foundation grant to the Los Angeles Times highlights the heightened competition pubcasters face for philanthropic dollars in a fast-changing media world. ...Foundations favor grantees with digital, local news chops
By giving two seminal news-related grants last year, the Pittsburgh Foundation broke from what chief executive Grant Oliphant described as the foundation’s ...Ford Foundation spending for educational broadcasting, fiscal years 1951-76
The Ford Foundation was noncommercial television’s first big funder, years before Congress contributed large sums — supporting efforts to acquire reserved channels, ...Fred Friendly’s solar-powered plan to give public TV independence
... Friendly began toying with an idea for a permanent source of funding for noncommercial television. In the spring of 1966 ...Fred Friendly: ‘a tough man but, my God, full of ideas’
Fred W. Friendly, the legendary CBS News producer who tried to bring innovation to public TV in the 1960s and later developed ...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 ...
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