System/Policy
How key committee members in Congress have voted on pubmedia funding
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Past votes may indicate how legislators weighing in on CPB’s appropriation will address the White House’s proposed end to federal funding.
System/Policy
CPB fields tech survey as stations grapple with purchasing decisions
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Equipment expenses across the system are increasing, according to a financial analysis by CPB.
CPB
Spectrum auction issues dominate CPB Board meeting
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CPB is aware of as many as six public television stations considering going off the air, said Michael Levy, e.v.p., during the meeting, which was held by phone.
CPB
Clinton budget backs appropriations for CPB and endowments but would terminate equipment grant program
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Within days after President Clinton issued his budget proposal for fiscal 1998, public
broadcasters and their supporters were working to bolster his proposals for CPB and the
arts and humanities endowments. And they were disputing his plans to zero out the Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP). Clinton’s proposed $325 million for CPB in fiscal 2000–the amount requested by
pubcasters–would amount to a 30 percent boost in their main federal support, compared to the 1998 and 1999 amount of $250 million. But it’s a smaller gain compared to pre-Gingrich appropriations. CPB’s appropriation this year, for instance, was settled at $315 million before it was partially rescinded.
History of public media
Educational Television Facilities Act of 1962
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With this law, signed by President Kennedy on May 1, 1962, Congress gave the first major federal aid to public broadcasting. The grants for new and replacement facilities and equipment initially were overseen by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare; the successor Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP) was operated by a Commerce Department agency, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Amid budget showdowns, Congress defunded PTFP after fiscal year 2010. PART IV — GRANTS FOR EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION BROADCASTING FACILITIES
Declaration of Purpose
SEC. 390. The purpose of this part is to assist (through matching grants) in the construction of educational television broadcasting facilities.