A Report to the People
A Report to the People

Author: Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Publisher:

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13:

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This annual report for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) for fiscal year 1986 also summarizes the CPB's activities over the last 20 years. The front inside cover folds out to three pages and provides a chronology of the important events in CPB history from its inception in 1967 to 1987. A narrative report on the CPB's 20 years of operation highlights its beginnings, milestones, programming, and audiences; the broadcasting system; and funding. Comments in support of public television by a wide variety of public figures concludes this portion of the report. The 1986 annual report provides information on television programming, radio programming, community outreach, adult learning, program support activities, and system support activities for that fiscal year. The CPB Board of Directors and officers are also listed, and a financial accounting by the firm of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. is provided. The text is supplemented by a number of graphs, figures, and photographs. (EW)

Public Radio and the Role of Federal Funding
Public Radio and the Role of Federal Funding

Author: Mark Goldstein

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2011-08

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 1437987885

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Info. on fed. funding used to support public radio. The Corp. for Public Broadcasting (CPB) receives fed. payments through the annual approp. process. CPB distributes these fed. payments in accordance with a statutory formula. Under this formula, the majority of each annual fed. payment is distributed to public broadcasting TV and radio stations and program producers, such as Nat. Public Radio (NPR), typically in the form of grants. This report addresses the following questions: (1) What are the missions of CPB, NPR, and local public radio stations? (2) What are the processes through which CPB receives fed. payments and disburses them to grantees?; (3) What are NPR's sources of revenue, both fed. and non-fed.? Illus. A print on demand report.