Television
Three years after a group of independent producers persuaded Congress that they deserved millions of dollars to fund projects for public television, the Independent Television Service (ITVS) says it is ready to begin making grants.
Dec. 13, 1991
World & Nation
A plan to spend $180,000 of public money to study the ideological slant of documentaries on public television has renewed a bitter political conflict within the non-commercial broadcasting community.
July 8, 1986
Entertainment & Arts
Balance has long been an issue in public broadcasting, but the debate flares when some see a conservative push as a shove.
March 24, 2004
Senate Republicans, upset with what they claim is a liberal bias in public broadcasting, are close to forcing Democrats to accept amendments and compromise wording in a bill to fund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for 1994 through 1996, according to sources on both sides.
May 16, 1992
Some of the nation’s best legal minds were asked Tuesday to help devise a policy to protect the public interest without taking sides or getting in the way when someone attempts a hostile financial takeover of a broadcast station.
July 10, 1985
After months of maneuvering, the short-run fate of public broadcasting should be clearer Thursday.
July 18, 1995
California
A year ago, an earthquake knocked the radio station at Cal State Northridge off the air.
Jan. 30, 1995
When activists on the far right of the political spectrum shifted their attention to public broadcasting about two years ago, officials at PBS and its member stations didn’t see it coming.
June 25, 1992
The sleaze factor in politics has gone too far.
May 4, 1992
KCET Channel 28 will receive $4.5 million in federal funding to produce public television’s first new series for preschoolers since “Sesame Street,” officials at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting said Monday.
Nov. 19, 1991