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Since the 1920s, people across the United States have launched public broadcasting services in their own communities to champion the principles of diversity and excellence of programming, responsiveness to local communities, and service to all. Today’s current public media system began to take shape nearly 50 years ago, with the creation of Corporation for Public Broadcasting in 1967. The ...
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a private, nonprofit corporation created by Congress in 1967, is the steward of the federal government's investment in public broadcasting. It helps ...
Television. In the United States, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) serves as the nation's main public television provider. When it launched in October 1970, PBS assumed many of the functions of its predecessor, National Educational Television (NET). NET was shut down by the Ford Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting after ...
A Board of Directors governs CPB, sets policy, and establishes funding priorities. CPB is the only public media organization whose board members are nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. A full board term runs for six years, with the President nominating members for vacancies. The Board, in turn, appoints the president and the chief executive officer ...
Total. $465,500,000. 2024 2023 2022 Fiscal Year 2024 Operating Budget Fiscal Year 2024 Operating Budget in Detail 534KB Revenues Federal Appropriation $525,000,000 Estimated Interest $10,000,000 Total $535,000,000 Fiscal Year 2023 Operating Budget Fiscal Year 2023 Operating Budget in Detail 223 KB Revenues Federal Appropriation $475,000,000 ...
Jul 3, 2017 · Summary. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) receives its funding through federal appropriations; overall, about 15% of public television and 10% of radio broadcasting funding comes from the federal appropriations that CPB distributes. CPB’s appropriation is allocated through a distribution formula established in its authorizing ...
The Public Broadcasting Act requires a set percentage of the CPB appropriation to go toward “national public television programming.” [2] CPB funds a broad array of national programs and producers in support of the statutory mission to reach underserved audiences, fund independent producers, provide high-quality educational programming for ...
