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During the 1970s and early 1980s, the majority of NPR funding came from the federal government. Steps were taken during the Reagan administration in the 1980s to completely wean NPR from government support, but the 1983 funding crisis forced the network to make immediate changes.
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]
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 ...
NPR does receive U.S. government funding through grants from federal agencies and departments, along with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The company said it accounts for less than 1% of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.