Word: cpb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CPB now will fund at least the safe shows--"Sesame Street," "ZOOM" "The Electric Company," and Miste-Rogers Neighborhood." But WGBH and its companion stations across the country will have to seek massive private support for their public affairs shows, such as "The Advocates," "Firing Line," "Bill Moyers Journal," and "Washington Week in Review...
Most crucial, though, is CPB's drive to control the interconnection system and thereby control what goes over...
...when one recalls President Nixon's veto message of last June in which he stressed the need to decentralize public broadcasting decisions. In June, the Johnson appointees on CBB still ran a low-keyed operation. But since October, when Loomis took over, there has been move toward centralization of CPB's power over public broadcasting...
Under the new CPB management, local stations like WGBH often have found themselves out in the cold, starving for funds. Loomis's leadership has upset all previous procedures of operation and assumed for itself powers previously held by PBS and the public TV stations. Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass.) has even accused CPB of being "inviolation of the limitations imposed by the Public Broadcasting...
...Rice put it, "When Loomis came in, he precipitated a development which the Board had been wanting for a long time." Rice said that Loomis brought under CPB control "those (discretionary) functions in national programming that PBS had been exercising: 1) the primary choice of what is to be funded and 2) what is scheduled over the interconnection system which links all public TV stations, whether or not it has CPB funds in it." Under the new agreements, when it comes to supervising or trouble-shooting any problems in production, i.e. editorial bias or misreporting, CPB now has ultimate power...