Corporation for Public Broadcasting history

In 1969 the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) was formed to facilitate…

…Public Broadcasting Act created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which in 1970 established NPR to provide programming to the nation’s noncommercial and educational radio stations, most of them situated at the low end of the FM radio dial.

By 1971 the Nixon Administration was in conflict with the CPB over controversial programming, perceiving anti-Administration bias in such programs as Washington Week in Review, Bill Moyers, and The Great American Dream Machine.

Soon public broadcasting was being denounced by Vice President Spiro Agnew, local stations were being encouraged to be more autonomous, and Nixon vetoed the CPB's appropriations bill for 1973.

President Gerald Ford largely ignored the CPB during his two-year term, while Congress raised CPB appropriations to $103 million for 1977 (appropriations were usually allocated two years in advance).

The Public Telecommunications Financing Act of 1978 returned some of the CPB's autonomy, eliminating the Office of Telecommunications Policy, which had overseen many aspects of the CPB, and setting up a separate account for the Corporation within the United States Treasury.

In 1979 the Carnegie Commission released another report on public television.

The 1983 appropriation for CPB was quickly reduced to $137 million from $172 million, reversing a six-year trend of increases in CPB's budget.

In 1984 he chose the former head of the organization Women for Reagan-Bush, Sonia Landau, to replace Sharon Rockefeller, who had been appointed by President Carter, as chair.

In 1987 Congress ordered CPB and PBS to settle their differences.

The 1990 appropriations bill once again restructured how the CPB allocated its money.

In 1992 Senate conservatives attempted to reduce the CPB budget by nearly $400 million over a three-year period.

By 1994 the public broadcast community for which CPB provided funding had grown to 629 radio stations and 351 television stations.

The Corporation's allocation for fiscal 1995 was $285.6 million.

Representative Peter Hoekstra of Michigan introduced a measure to eliminate the CPB's funding for 1998.

The current president and CEO of CPB is Patricia de Stacy Harrison, appointed by the board of directors in June 2005.

Paula Kerger became the sixth and current president and CEO of PBS in March 2006.

On October 20, 2010, Juan Williams, a news analyst working as an independent contractor reporter for NPR, was fired by executives in the office of NPR News for comments Mr.

NPR Statement Regarding Proposed Legislation, H.R.68/69, NPR, Inc., Washington, DC, January 11, 2011.

On June 20, 2012, the CPB released a report, Alternative Sources of Funding for Public Broadcasting Stations.

H.R. 2647, the Emergency Information Improvement Act of 2013 (Higgins), was introduced on July 10, 2013, and referred to the House Subcommittee on Economic Development, Committee on Public Buildings and Emergency Management.

On July 2014, Jarl Mohn became the current president and CEO of NPR.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting, "CPB and PBS Receive Ready to Learn Grant from the United States Department of Education," press release, September 8, 2015, http://www.cpb.org/pressroom/release.php?pm=1235.

On June 9, 2016, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved, 29-1, S.Rept.

114-274, the FY2017 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations bill.