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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...
...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...
Public broadcasting, especially public affairs TV, eventually could succumb to the Administration's programming desires. While conveniently placing the burden of finance onto private sources, CPB hopes to retain programming power. By withholding funds on public affairs programs, CPB forces public TV out of public affairs and back to language correspondence courses...
WETA in Washington, D.C., recently threatened to turn down an $800,000 grant from CPB to produce a new public affairs series for national public TV next season because it fears that CPB wants "censorship" authority over the content of the 26 proposed shows. In accepting WETA's program proposal, CPB required that its own management "work closely with WETA management in the development of more detailed information regarding programs within this series." In an unprecedented move, CPB management recommended that WETA meet sufficient programming criteria before it would receive funds for actual production...