Tag: State funding
Pennsylvania pubTV could see funding restored six years after being zeroed out
For the first time since state funding was cut in 2009, Pennsylvania's eight public television stations could see funding restored as Gov. ...California Arts Council directs state aid to three public media outlets
In the first and potentially only government-backed grant program supporting arts coverage by California’s public media stations, KQED, PBS SoCaL and Radio ...Mississippi boosts state aid to pubcasting after half-decade of cuts
MPR credits successful legislative outreach and a state revenue increase for its nine-percent aid bump.Monday roundup: CPB Board gets nominee; public TV funding rebounds
• President Obama has nominated Dr. Judith Davenport to serve as a CPB Board director, the White House announced Friday. Davenport, a ...Kansas governor proposes to cut state aid to pubcasting
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has proposed cutting state aid to public television and radio by 42 percent in the next two fiscal ...Pubcasters in R.I., N.H. go independent as they lose state funding
Two New England public television stations are moving to sever their ties to state and university licensees, cutting loose to become community-based ...Maine legislators reject proposal to zero out pubcasting aid
A committee of Maine’s legislature unanimously voted April 5 to reject Gov. Paul LePage’s bid to eliminate funding for the state’s public ...Phase-out of state aid proposed in R.I., Oklahoma
Pubcasting networks continue to deal with the uncertainties of state funding in economically and politically precarious times, closing offices, facing possible cuts ...State aid to Virginia stations again in jeopardy
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) has proposed zeroing out the state’s $7.2 million in state funding for Virginia’s public television and radio ...State aid down $85 million in four years
In four years that include the deepening recession, fiscal 2008 through 2012, public broadcasting stations in 24 states have lost a total ...Republican lawmakers preserve most funding for SCETV
South Carolina ETV avoided steep funding cuts last month as the state’s Republican-controlled legislature thwarted Gov. Nikki Haley’s attempt to eliminate two-thirds ...Public TV privatization drive falters in Idaho
The campaign to throw Idaho Public Television out of the state budget seems to have run out of oomph. On Feb. 20 ...Idaho bans public TV programs that ‘support’ law-breaking
Idaho’s state legislature has imposed extraordinary restrictions on the state public TV network, in delayed reaction to its broadcast last September of ...A legend for our times
When the governor emerged from the sub shop, Susan Farmer was waiting by his limo.
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