Word: cpb
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...commission argues, the central institutional dilemma cannot be solved within the existing framework. The current public broadcasting system puts both programming and financial decisions under the mantle of one organization, the CPB. In short, "public broadcasting has yet to resolve the dilemma posed by its own structure." The solution: Scrap the existing bureaucracy, and replace it with...
Nixon's veto, which the commission calls "consistent" with his policies against concentration of power in the media, destroyed already weak ties between existing public broadcasting bureaucracies. Relations between the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and the Public Broadcasting System (PBS), both vying for financial and creative supremacy, deteriorated. When organizational conflicts subsided, Nixon signed a bill authorizing increased local funding. Decisions in 1975 stabilized the system further. Institutional reorganization coupled with a new multi-year funding plan "helped stimulate public broadcasting's recovery and renewed development." Under this system, as a barrage of figures indicate, public television experienced...
...fill a vital educational role. Disbursing funds through a central bureau might reduce support for such groups. It would no doubt, foster competition among local and national sources. What the commission labels a "useful, healthy tension" threatens to degenerate into the same type of conflicts that once plauged both CPB...
...Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is a kind of guardian of federal funds, and the Public Broadcasting Service, which represents the individual stations. There is wholesale duplication of effort, and far too big a percentage of the TV budget is spent on administration rather than on programming. The CPB, whose members are appointed by the President, is overly sensitive to prevailing political winds, moreover. There is always a danger that a determined President will try to influence public television for his own purposes, as Richard Nixon did when he packed the CPB with his political pals...
Carnegie II recommends abolishing the CPB and putting in its place something called the Public Telecommunications Trust. The nine-member PTT board would still be appointed by the President. To protect the panel's independence, however, he would be permitted to consider only those names submitted to him by a committee of such notables as the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and the Librarian of Congress. To do away with the internal bickering, the PTT would also be deprived of the programming authority that the CPB now has. Programming on the national level would be the sole function...