Corporation For Public Broadcasting Authorization Act Of 1999

Author : United States Congress
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ISBN 13 : 9781331376972
Total Pages : 158 pages
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Download or read book Cpb Authorization written by United States Congress and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cpb Authorization: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, September 12, 1994 The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 2:40 p.m., in room 2123, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Edward J. Markey (chairman) presiding. Mr. Markey. Good afternoon and welcome to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finances oversight hearing on reauthorization of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Today we will consider the budget for CPB and public broadcasting for fiscal years 1997, 1998 and 1999. We all fervently hope on this committee that the baseball strike will be over by then. For over 25 years the public broadcasting system has carried out its unique and vitally important mandate to provide public telecommunications services that are responsive to the interests of people throughout the country and in the smallest town, and to encourage the expression of diversity and excellence through an alternative broadcasting service. It has provided programming that involves creative risks and that addresses the needs of unserved and underserved audiences. It has struggled to provide something for everyone on public television, and, while it has not always succeeded, it has demonstrated again and again the possibilities of the television medium. When the public broadcasting system was first created in 1967 it was through the recognition that market forces, product advertising, in short, economics alone, could not fully meet our television - our information - needs as a democratic society. Ratings alone, popularity alone, could not be the sole arbiter of what is available to millions of Americans on television. How much more important it is today, as Americans spend more and more time tuning into television and other sources of information, that we foster and protect a place for creativity, risk taking, innovation and alternative views. The 25th anniversary of the creation of the public broadcasting system, which occurred in 1992 for CPB and this year for PBS, gives us an opportunity to step back and take a look at where we have been and what the future might hold for public broadcasting. Particularly this year, as Congress considers the most far-reaching changes in the Communications Act in more than 60 years and the "information revolution" continues to unfold, it is critical that public broadcasting is a part of these changes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.