Corporation for Public Broadcasting
| Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) |
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| legal form | private nonprofit corporation |
| founding | November 7, 1967 |
| Seat | Washington, DC |
| purpose | Promoting and supporting public broadcasting in the United States |
| Chair | Patricia Harrison, President and CEO |
| Website | www.cpb.org |
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is a non-profit society for the promotion and support of public broadcasting in the United States of America , based in Washington, DC
assignment
The establishment goes back essentially to the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. CPB is a private nonprofit corporation founded by Congress on November 7, 1967. Today the association is the largest sponsor of public media stations and their online and mobile services in the USA.
CPB's mission is to ensure unrestricted and widespread access to public broadcasting and other media for all Americans. The funded programs must be non-commercial and of good quality. The association also defines the role of the CPB in public broadcasting as protecting the stations from political influence through federal funding while at the same time maintaining their political independence.
Today most regional public radio and television stations use only 10% of their budget from the CPB. The majority comes from corporate donations, other government funds, and direct contributions from viewers and listeners.
history
The history of public and independent broadcasting in the United States is closely linked to the CPB. Only with this instrument was it possible to build up a comprehensive network of around 1,000 radio and 350 television stations of the NPR and PBS. For Republican politicians in particular , many public broadcasting products are too liberal in orientation and they repeatedly question its funding.
At the beginning of 2017, US President Donald Trump made the most devastating cuts in the history of US public broadcasting . In his draft budget for 2018 he plans to withdraw the financing of the "Corporation for Public Broadcasting" and only to award grants to bring the ongoing financing process to an end. The total budget of 445 million US dollars should be canceled, said the director of the US Department of Administration and Budgetary Affairs, Mick Mulvaney .
In March 2017, PBS President Paula Kerger pointed out that small public broadcasting stations in rural areas are most dependent on the CPB funds and that some could not survive without the government subsidies.
financing
The CPB finances its work from tax revenues. The CPB's budget is 0.012% of the federal budget, or $ 4 per person per year.
structure
70 percent of the funding goes to a total of almost 1,500 local and regional public radio and public television stations. More than 1,041 local public radio stations and more than 365 local public television stations are currently receiving funding from the CPB. In addition, CBP supports program producers, but has no distribution channels of its own.
CPB includes or is financed by:
- American Public Television , the largest program producer for US Public Television Stations.
- Independent Television Service (ITVS), funds, distributes and promotes independently produced TV content.
- National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA), which broadcasts 2,000 hours of programming annually from PM stations via satellite to stations across the United States.
CPB also finances a substantial part of the National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service .
Web links
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting website
- President Trump's budget blueprint of cuts to the CPB, published by the NPR
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Veronica DeVore with input from Thomas Stephens, Belén Couceiro, Jie Guo, Kamel Dhif, Alexander Thoele, Igor Petrov, Akiko Uehara, swissinfo.ch: Public broadcasting in international comparison . In: SWI swissinfo.ch . ( swissinfo.ch [accessed on May 29, 2018]).
- ↑ a b Now also the "Sesame Street" . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed April 10, 2017]).
- ^ Four-Star Retired Army General: Protect PBS from Trump Budget Cuts . In: Mother Jones . ( motherjones.com [accessed April 10, 2017]).
- ↑ Lee DeVito: PBS CEO Paula Kerger to speak in Detroit today about Trump's proposed budget cuts . In: Detroit Metro Times . ( metrotimes.com [accessed April 10, 2017]).
- ↑ About CPB