This document begins with a summary of the proposed bill on long range funding for public broadcasting, a brief history of federal support for public broadcasting, and a statement of the financial needs of public broadcasting. A section-by-section analysis of the bill, a statement of the purpose of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB),…

The educational broadcaster today is like a man trying to ride two horses at once--the one horse is broadcasting technology and the other is education. The history of educational broadcasting has been marked by a succession of new technologies launched before the older ones were fully understood and used. The effect of the Corporation for Public…

Explains what the new act means to public and instructional broadcasters and schools that use or copy their programs off-air.

The Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation is described in terms of the laws and regulations which brought it into being, define its activities, and provide for its financial support. Special attention is given to the relationship between the Corporation and the Ministry of Education, who jointly produce educational radio and television broadcasts on a…

The establishment of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting makes possible vast improvements in the educational radio and television system in this country. The two crucial areas for communication are international communication and urban communication. In the urban ghettoes especially, old-fashioned education has left children frustrated and cut…

This annual report for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) for fiscal year 1986 also summarizes the CPB's activities over the last 20 years. The front inside cover folds out to three pages and provides a chronology of the important events in CPB history from its inception in 1967 to 1987. A narrative report on the CPB's 20 years of…

This statistical report presents an overview of the current status of public broadcasting. Separate sections deal with the development of public broadcasting, finance, broadcast content, national interconnection services, public broadcasting audience, and employment of broadcast personnel. An appendix provides definitions of selected terms related…

The third in a series of reports since 1973, this overview of the growth of public broadcasting includes finance, public radio and television programming, national interconnection and instructional services, audience, and employment. It details the current status and major trends in the respective areas of public broadcasting in order to provide a…

This report presents the activities of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for 1979. Sections deal with the following topics: telecommunications activities, including public radio, educational television, the program fund unit, educational activities, and the children's program project; planning and research, including communication and…

This text contains the transcripts of five days of hearings before the House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Communications, and it includes the texts of thirty-five statements and a substantial amount of additional material introduced for the record. The subject of the hearings was the extent and form of government subsidies to public…

The 1972 WEST conference report represents a cooperative project of the Western Educational Society for Telecommunications and the ERIC Clearinghouse on Media and Technology. The conference featured discussions of public television, instructional television, cable television, national educational radio, and national public radio, educational…

This handbook endeavors to provide information and advice to noncommercial broadcasting stations on how to perform ascertainment studies in conformance with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations. Additional suggestions are made to enable stations to obtain in-depth information about community needs, wants, and interests. The…

The status of noncommercial television in West Virginia is described in a number of articles in this journal. Activities of West Virginia's three educational television stations (WWVU-TV, WSWP-TV, and WMUL-TV) are related. County service and participation are noted. Attention is given to campus and school use of educational television. Other…

Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation, operates two public television, two medium wave radio and one VHF-FM public radio networks. NHK derives its support from receiver fees. Under the 1950 Broadcast Law which established NHK as a public broadcasting organization the Prime Minister appoints NHK's Board of Governors and…

Traces the historical background of the Canadian national agency, Radio-Quebec. (JY)