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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]
Funding for public television comes in roughly equal parts from government (at all levels) and the private sector. [ 11 ] Stations that receive CPB funds must meet certain requirements, [ 12 ] such as the maintenance or provision of open meetings, open financial records, a community advisory board, equal employment opportunity, and lists of ...
NPR produces its own programming (PBS, by contrast, does not create its own content, which is instead produced by select member stations and independent program distributors). NPR also receives some direct funding from private donors, foundations, and from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. [18]
NPR says on its website that federal funding is “essential” to NPR but that “less than 1% of NPR’s annual operating budget comes in the form of grants from CPB and federal agencies and ...
News operations will continue, and the university’s president urged listeners to continue supporting the station.
Public broadcasting (or public service broadcasting) involves radio, television, and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service.Public broadcasters receive funding from diverse sources including license fees, individual contributions, public financing, and commercial financing, and claim to avoid both political interference and commercial influence.
Upstate New York Rep. Elise Stefanik vowed to pull funding from NPR over an affiliate reporter’s inaccurate claim on Tuesday about early voting that suggested the GOP congresswoman couldn’t ...
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 ...