A look at how the Maryland Public Broadcasting Center serves business needs. (Author/HB)

Because it is essential that, wherever applicable, new technologies be integrated with the developing public broadcasting system, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is committed to a policy which will seek to have communication satellites utilized to the fullest for the benefit of all engaged in noncommercial broadcasting and communications.…

Activities of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in its fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, are described in terms of telecommunications activities, planning and research, human resources development, satellite technology, and general financing of public broadcasting. Other information includes a CPB assessment of its goals and…

The state of commercial, educational, and instructional television in West Germany is described, with emphasis on the facts that advertiser support has not restricted quality and that public support has not meant government control. (LS)

At the 1970 National Association of Educational Broadcasters convention, a minority affairs report showed that, although minorities constituted nearly 10 percent of public broadcasting employees, there was almost no minority representation at the management and professional levels. Recent statistics show little change in those employment…

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has developed a new means of financing a portion of PBS' national programing--the "Station Program Cooperative" (SPC). Established in April 1974, the SPC is the product of a multifaceted attack on three critical and interrelated problems: (1) an increasing scarcity of funds for national programing;…

The history of copyright law in the United States since 1909 is outlined, with emphasis on educational television's unique position and concerns. The problems which ETV raises are illuminated by an account of the proceedings in the House of Representatives and in the Senate on a 1965 bill dealing with copyright law revision. (LS)

The ideal promotional effort for an educational television (ETV) station is dependent on a professional approach to the problem. This means that each ETV station should employ a public relations manager and should keep him informed about all major station decisions. The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has a campaign of its own to bring attention…

Three related bills to provide for improved financing for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting were introduced in Congress. The bills would increase funding for the years 1972-77. Hearings on these bills before the Subcommittee on Communications and Power are reprinted here. Included are the texts of bills, statements made to the Subcommittee…

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) continued to grow in fiscal year 1971, its third year of operation. Fourteen new public television stations began broadcasting, bringing 7.9 million more persons within receiving range, and bringing the total number of TV stations to 207. Income increased 18 per cent to $14 million due largely to more…

The first of three phases to provide the Pennsylvania Public Television Network (PPTN) and its seven component stations with information and procedures for defining, estimating and characterizing audiences, as well as developing programs and assessing reactions to them, this study concentrated on establishing audience definitions. The basic…

A discussion of how a two-party system has evolved in the ten years since the passage of the Public Broadcasting Act, with support gathering behind "Centralist" and "Localist" lines. (Author)

Which comes first? Solving public broadcasting's funding problems or addressing fundamental questions about how the public broadcasting systems should relate to and serve the public? These are questions facing all elements of public broadcasting leadership, and one way of dealing with them is explored here. (Author/HB)

A second and long-range look at public broadcasting since the Carnegie Commission's report on educational television in 1967. (DAG)