Public Broadcasting Service
| Public Broadcasting Service | |
|---|---|
| legal form | public broadcasting company |
| founding | 3rd November 1969 |
| Seat | Arlington , Virginia , USA |
| management | Paula Kerger, President |
| Branch | Mass media |
| Website | www.pbs.org |
The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS ) is a non-commercial TV network in the USA . PBS was founded on November 3, 1969 as the successor to National Education Television (NET), which ceased operations when PBS began broadcasting on October 5, 1970. The PBS is owned by the 348 non-commercial local broadcasters who, compared to commercial providers, usually have more freedom in programming.
structure
The counterpart to the PBS in radio is the National Public Radio (NPR).
PBS and NPR are considered to be the American counterpart to the public broadcasters in Europe. Nevertheless, PBS is mainly financed by donations, with state subsidies also being granted, albeit under strong criticism. The federal funding will receive PBS on by the United States Congress established foundation Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the 2012, around 445 million US dollars distributed to various institutions.
In October 2012, presidential candidate Mitt Romney made PBS funding a topic of national attention in the first TV duel with Barack Obama (hosted by PBS). He repeated the announcement he had already made on an earlier occasion that he wanted to cancel the state subsidies for the CPB.
Productions
Among other things, “ Barney and his friends ”, “Dragon Tales”, “ Caillou ”, “ Sesame Street ”, Deutsche Welle Nachrichten, “ BBC World News ”, “Charlie Rose” and “Economics U $ A” are shown. The documentary film series P.OV (Point of View) is particularly popular .
See also
literature
- BJ Bullert: Public Television. Politics and the Battle over Documentary Film , Rutgers Univ. Press 1997 ISBN 0-8135-2469-5 .
- Bary Dornfeld: Producing Public Television, Producing Public Culture , Princeton University Press 1998 ISBN 0-691-04468-6 .
- Ralph Engelman: Public Radio and Television in America. A Political History , Sage Publications 1996 ISBN 0-8039-5406-9 .
- James Ledbetter: Made Possible by. The Death of Public Broadcasting in the United States , Verso 1998 ISBN 1-85984-904-0 .
Web links
- Official website of PBS
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting , CPB website
swell
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/arts/federal-arts-endowment-sharply-cuts-pbs-grants.html
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ About CPB , brief description of the CPB on their website, accessed on October 8, 2012 (English)
- ↑ USA: Mitt Romney wants to cut funds for PBS , in: Funkkorrespondenz from August 31, 2012
- ↑ Adam Gabbatt: PBS characterises Mitt Romney's threat to pull funding as 'unbelievable' , in: The Guardian of October 4, 2012 (English)
