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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) (stylized as cpb) is an American publicly funded non-profit corporation, created in 1967 to promote and help support public broadcasting. [4] The corporation's mission is to ensure universal access to non-commercial, high-quality content and telecommunications services. It does so by distributing ...
The organization's legal name is National Public Radio and its trademarked brand is NPR; it is known by both names. [11] In June 2010, the organization announced that it was "making a conscious effort to consistently refer to ourselves as NPR on-air and online" because NPR is the common name for the organization and its radio hosts have used the tag line "This ... is NPR" for many years. [11]
Former PBS headquarters in Crystal City, Virginia. PBS was established on November 3, 1969, by Hartford N. Gunn Jr. (president of WGBH), John Macy (president of CPB), James Day (last president of National Educational Television), and Kenneth A. Christiansen (chairman of the department of broadcasting at the University of Florida).
The U.S. public broadcasting system differs from such systems in other countries, in that the principal public television and radio broadcasters – the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR), respectively – operate as separate entities. Some of the funding comes from community support to hundreds of public radio ...
American Public Television (APT) is an American nonprofit organization and syndicator of programming for public television stations in the United States. It distributes public television programs nationwide for PBS member stations and independent educational stations, as well as the Create and World television networks.
Such a move, NPR and its allies argue, would cripple public broadcasting by depriving millions of listeners access to news programs at member stations. Some local affiliates would go dark, NPR ...
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 ...
American Public Media (APM) is an American company that produces and distributes public radio programs in the United States, the second largest company of its type after NPR. [1] Its non-profit parent, American Public Media Group, also owns and operates radio stations in Minnesota and California.