Tag: Grants
Independent KCET savors big ambitions, makes slow progress
Halfway through its three-year transition from one of PBS’ leading outlets to an independent public TV station in the world capital of ...Ramer sees potential return on CPB’s investments
A fast-track request for CPB aid to a digital innovation project morphed into a pointed exchange over the corporation’s overall funding objectives ...NEA allotted this year’s media aid ‘to present art in new and . . . ...
Soon, listeners will hear celebrities read James Joyce’s entire masterpiece Ulysses via satellite and Internet radio; a New York City theater will use ...CPB survives, but not the facilities program
This year, St. Patrick’s Day was the deadline for pubcasters to ask Uncle Sam for help replacing their ancient, failing transmitters, or ...Incentives for ‘diversity, innovation’ come with big CPB grant to PBS
CPB and PBS are completing an agreement that may lead to the agency’s first annual grants for the PBS National Program Service ...‘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, ...Woody Wickham, 66
Woodward A. (Woody) Wickham, 66, a strong supporter of independent documentary films and public media producers, died of cancer Jan. 18 [2009] ...Educational Television Facilities Act of 1962
With this law, signed by President Kennedy on May 1, 1962, Congress gave the first major federal aid to public broadcasting. The ...
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