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- Public TV: Waiting for the ax to fall? Raphael, Steve // Crain's Detroit Business;12/5/94, Vol. 10 Issue 49, p3
Reports on the reaction of WTVS-Channel 56 executives to the threats by congressional Republicans to cut public television's budget. Comments from company executives; Lack of corporate and viewer support; Revenue generated by the station's mission of providing educational programs; Effects of...
- Merge or perish? Rathbun, Elizabeth // Broadcasting & Cable;5/22/95, Vol. 125 Issue 21, p46
Discusses the trend toward mergers among public television stations in face of cuts in federal funding. Details of report by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to the Congress on steps to avoid duplication of services and overlapping of signals; Case of merger of KUED and KULC; Benefits of...
- Is there an ax in the house? Jackson, Paul // Grand Rapids Magazine;Apr95, Vol. 32 Issue 4, p6
Reports on the implications of a cut in the federal budget for public television. Amount raised by the WGVU-GVK Public Broadcasting affiliate during its Food & Wine Symposium in February 1995; Comments from WMPB general manager Michael Walenta; Recommendations regarding funding decreases.
- Gov't boosts TV coin. // Daily Variety;08/22/2000, Vol. 268 Issue 56, p13
Discloses that France's public television is receiving federal aid with an increase in the 2001 budget.
- Pledge-free PBS? We'll see. Kiesewetter, John // Electronic Media;06/22/98, Vol. 17 Issue 26, p4
Announces that WCET-TV is carrying out an experiment with a `pledge-free' cable feed to suburban Time Warner Cable subscribers. How long the experiment will be carried out; Value of the experiment; Identification of programs that subscribers will be offered without pledge breaks; Expectations...
- Fields gives ultimatum to public broadcasters. Rathbun, Elizabeth // Broadcasting & Cable;4/1/96, Vol. 126 Issue 14, p18
Reports on Representative Jack Fields' plans for the funding of public television in the United States. Action to be taken by Fields if broadcasters oppose bill; Time allotted to broadcaster to make a decision; Details on argument being made by Fields; Comments from Larry Pressler, Senate...
- Teutonic pubcasters falling on hard times. Molner, David // Variety;10/30/95, Vol. 360 Issue 13, p169
Reports on problems faced by Germany's public television broadcasters ARD and ZDF. Increase in prices for top-tier United States programming; ARD as a federation of eight regional pubcasters that operates its own national channel; Commercial broadcasters' call for the limitation of the growth...
- Don't kill Big Bird. Oman, Ralph // World & I;Apr95, Vol. 10 Issue 4, p94
Comments on the proposal to discontinue the federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). CPB as a promoter of respectability in public broadcasting; Serving the public interest as the goal of CBP; CPB's role in educating the American people; Reinforcement of the people's...
- EU will eye pubcaster funding. Stern, Andy // Daily Variety;11/2/2001, Vol. 273 Issue 45, p5
Reports the expected scrutiny of the state funding for European public television broadcasters in a scheduled meeting of European Union (EU) culture ministers in Brussels, Belgium. Discussion of rules for state subsidies; Controversies within the industry; Aims of EU to launch a worldwide...
