Word: cpb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vetoed a bill that would have raised federal spending for public TV to $65 million this year and $90 million next year (compared with the current $35 million).* There would have to be, Nixon declared, a much more careful look at the direction public TV was taking. Discouraged, former CPB President John W. Macy resigned. Through presidential appointments, Nixon's men gained a majority of the 15-member governing board of the corporation, an independent body that actually determines how Government funds will be spent...
...change in direction at CPB should be almost immediate, since Loomis seems to agree with Nixon on every major point. Like the President, he believes in decentralization of the public broadcasting system. "The ultimate program choices," he says, "must be made by the stations, and they should have a considerable voice in national programming." Last year only 13% of CPB'S funds went to local TV stations; Loomis would give them at least...