System/Policy
How a revamped Public Broadcasting Act would help public media fill news deserts
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A former CPB board member argues that updating the Act could be a boon for smaller stations.
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A former CPB board member argues that updating the Act could be a boon for smaller stations.
“The time is right to re-examine basic assumptions about public media and to ask, anew, essential questions,” writes an outgoing CPB board member.
“Fighting for public broadcasting is like fighting for equal rights and equal opportunity for everybody and anybody in this world,” says an early leader in the field.
Our new podcast revisits the roots of public media by bringing together founders and up-and-comers.
The decentralized, financially dependent structure of public broadcasting is “a feature, not a bug.”
The “On the Air” exhibit’s opening day event drew families eager to meet Elmo and Big Bird.
Delivering the keynote speech at the PBS Annual Meeting Tuesday, Kerger said public broadcasting is at “an inflection moment.”
Only eight months after LBJ called on lawmakers to support his bill creating CPB, the measure passed Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support.
And more awards in public media.