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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 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 ...
In the audit dated Jan. 26, the CPB’s Office of the Inspector General said Valley PBS overstated the amount of financial support it received from non-federal sources, such as from memberships ...
Pledge drives have been controversial for most of their existence. While pledge drives are an effective method of raising money for stations, they usually annoy viewers and listeners, who find the regular interruption of what is ordinarily commercial-free content and the station's regular programming being suspended for lifestyle and music specials to be a nuisance.
Now, a new subcommittee in the House bearing a similar name, Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE), is taking a look at National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, both of ...
Federal funding for NPR and PBS largely goes through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is poised to receive $535 million from the government in fiscal year 2025, according to its budget.
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 ...
PBS and CPB rules permit underwriting commercial use for broadcast stations with certain speech limits that are only required of broadcast stations because of the nature of the non-profit license. Channels that run non-commercial formats on cable television or direct broadcast satellite television tend not to use underwriting spots, as they can ...