Word: wgbh
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...cutback in Channel 2's national programming production directly damages local programming, which enjoys the benefits of WGBH's large facility and resources. Rice warns, "We will lose both ways. Every time one of our national series goes unfunded, one more way of providing programming for our community is lost...Most of the national series we offer grow out of the Boston community. In a large sense, the programs we produce are a reflection of the cultural richness and intellectual resources of this area. So in an ultimate way everything we do is a community service...
...assure its production next season. Yet, in all three cases, no more than one half of the required funds were allocated by CPB. The rest of the money will have to come from private sources, principally from the Ford Foundation. Ford has yet to allot any money to WGBH, hinting that it will continue to refuse such money until the public stations are assured of programming independence from...
What can result in WGBH's case is a downward spiral of activity. If the station is forced to cut back on its production of any national PBS programs, it will lose income and resources that will directly affect its local programming. Eventually, Rice contends, "We'd just disintegrate. Right now we're at a point where much of a somewhat fragile structure between public and private financing has been put together. But this peculiarly balanced economy of national and local programming could, with lack of funding, just fall apart...
...refusal to allocate funds is one method by which CPB can manipulate public broadcasting. Circulating among public TV stations is the fear that CPB will go one step further--to content censorship. Sylvia Davis, Channel 2's Public Relations Director, stated recently that "though WGBH airs more controversial programs than anyone else, we will not submit to content censorship...
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...