Tag: PBS
The Voters’ Channel: A Feasibility Study, 1990
The Markle Foundation, then a major backer of public TV, proposed in 1990 that PBS develop the Voters’ Channel, a project planned ...PBS hires Jennifer Lawson as chief programmer
The Public Broadcasting Service reached across the Potomac River and some bad blood to pick Jennifer Lawson, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s ...Public Television Program Financing
This detailed paper was published in the October 1972 issue of Educational Broadcasting Review, the journal of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters. The paper ...Public Broadcasting Service By-Laws, 1969
On Nov. 11, 1969, eight days after a quartet of public broadcasters signed PBS’s Articles of Incorporation, they adopted these initial bylaws. ...Articles of Incorporation of Public Broadcasting Service
On Nov. 3, 1969, four public broadcasters, including the presidents of CPB and National Educational Television (NET), incorporated a new nonprofit organization ...‘I give an expression of care
every day to each child’Probably the most famous congressional testimony delivered on behalf of CPB appropriations came from Fred Rogers on May 2, 1969. The young ...CPB-PBS Partnership Agreement, 1973
After three years of conflict between PBS and Nixon Administration appointees at CPB, the boards of the two organizations reached this agreement, securing ...
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