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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).
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]
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]
In a statement, the CPB president said that there is "no viable substitute for federal funding" that could help the CPB provide free public programming.
Of course, NPR is hardly the only group facing the possibility of losing federal funding. Federal spending of all sorts has been under scrutiny and there's a palpable concern that many programs ...
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 ...
Public Broadcasting Act of 1967; Long title: An Act to amend the Communications Act of 1934 by extending and improving the provisions thereof relating to grants for construction of educational television broadcasting facilities, by authorizing assistance in the construction of non-commercial educational radio broadcasting facilities, by establishing a nonprofit corporation to assist in ...
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 ...