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Iowa PBS, formerly Iowa Public Television (IPTV), is a network of Public Broadcasting Service member stations in the U.S. state of Iowa.It is operated by the Iowa Public Broadcasting Board, an agency of the state education department which holds the licenses for all the PBS member stations in the state.
Of the 354 PBS members currently operating as of 2017 (which account for 97% of the 365 public television stations in the U.S.), roughly half belong to one of 40 state or regional networks, which carry programming fed by a parent station to a network of satellite transmitters throughout the entirety or a sub-region of an individual state; this ...
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was created on November 7, 1967, when U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.The new organization initially collaborated with the National Educational Television network—which would be replaced by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
Andrew Batt joins Iowa PBS as the new executive director and general manager, the broadcasting network announced on Jan. 23.. Batt departs from his current position of director of production and ...
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The law also increases state per-pupil aid to schools by 2.5%, an increase of $191 per pupil, bringing total state funding for public K-12 schools to $3.8 billion.
Iowa City: 12 12 KIIN: PBS: satellite of KDIN-TV ch. 11 Des Moines. PBS Kids on 12.2, World on 12.3, Create on 12.4 Mason City: 3 24 KIMT: CBS: MyNetworkTV on 3.2, Ion on 3.3, Antenna TV on 3.4 24 18 KYIN: PBS: satellite of KDIN-TV ch. 11 Des Moines. PBS Kids on 24.2, World on 24.3, Create on 24.4 Ottumwa: 15 15 KYOU-TV: Fox
The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 (47 U.S.C. § 396) issued the congressional corporate charter for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a private nonprofit corporation funded by taxpayers to disburse grants to public broadcasters in the United States, [1] and eventually established the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National ...