Author: Task Force on the Long-Range Fiancing of Public Broadcasting

Publication Year: 1972

Media Type: Report

Summary:

Abstract:

The Task Force has spent more than a year in study and discussion of the steps that must be taken to secure the funds so desparately needed to fulfill the promise made to the American people of quality public broadcasting. This body acknowledges the historic fact and shares the general opinion that the majority of the funds for public broadcasting operations have come and should continue to come from non-Federal sources, but also recognizes that the funds available from non-Federal sources have not been adequate to support essential system growth. The Task Force strongly feels that properly deployed Federal funds cannot only provide the critical difference in achieving the planned growth of public broadcasting, but also substantially increase the ability of the stations to obtain funds from other sources.

The main thrust of this Task Force report is that only through a workable long-range financing mechanism can we achieve the promise of the Carnegie Commission of a public broadcasting service that is both creative and excellent, serving all the American people with programming of the significance, quality, and types not readily available to the audiences of commercial broadcasting. (p. 5)

CONTENTS
Foreword.

1. The task force.
2. Task force plan for the long range financing of public broadcasting.
3. The growth of public broadcasting.
4. Educational broadcasting facilities program.
5. The public broadcasting system today.
6. Problem areas of public broadcasting.
7. Requirements of public broadcasting.

Appendices:
     A. Task force members.
     B. Task force principles.
     C. CPB-PBS Agreement of May 31, 1973.
     D. Policy for public radio station assistance and qualifying stations.
     E. CPB eligibility criteria for community service grants.
     F. Brief descriptions of Federal funding sources considered.
     G. Public television stations.
     H. Public radio stations.

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: Funding