Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Administrative History/Information:

• Authorized in the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 and begins in 1968
• Purpose: to develop noncommercial television and radio
• tenet of law that created CPB: need to insulate public broadcasting from government interference
• Funds public television and public radio stations directly with Community Service Grants
• Funds program production and training
• Public Broadcasting PolicyBase documents:
  • Amounts authorized and appropriated for CPB, 1969-2001
  • Curve of CPB appropriations, 1969-2001
  • CPB budget allocation formula
  • Grant rules on mailing lists and partisan politician activities, 1999
• Website: http://www.cpb.org/

Related Collections:

• Christopher Buchanan Papers
• Robert D.B. Carlisle Papers
• Margaret Chisholm Papers
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting Archives
  • John W. Macy Files
  • Donald R. Quayle Files
• Dean W. Coston Papers
• David L. Crippens Papers
• James Day Papers
• Donley F. Feddersen Papers
• Kenneth J. Garry Papers
• Barton L. Griffith Papers
• Burt Harrison Papers-Interviews:
  • Martin P. Busch
  • John C. Crabbe
  • Richard Estell
  • Lee C. Frischknecht
  • Betty T. Girling
  • John Gregory
  • William G. Harley
  • Robert L. Hilliard
  • Robert C. Hinz
  • Richard B. Hull
  • Albert Hulsen
  • Kenneth Kager
  • Lucinda Landreth Kindred
  • Robert A. Mott
  • Donald R. Quayle
  • Frank E. Schooley
  • John P. Witherspoon
  • Elizabeth L. Young
• Samuel C.O. Holt Papers
• Laurence A. Jarvik Papers
• National Friends of Public Broadcasting (NFPB) Archives
• Arthur A. Paul Papers
• Jim Robertson Papers-Interviews:
  • Gerard (Jerry) Appy
  • Hyman Goldin
  • James R. Killian, Jr.
  • Frank E. Schooley
• Ralph B. Rogers Papers
• Frank E. Schooley Papers
• David C. Stewart Papers
• Elizabeth L. Young Papers
• Jeane R. Young Papers

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Reference Shelf Materials

Reading Room

Agostino, Don and Jayne Zenaty. Home VCR Owners' Use of Television and Public Television: Viewing, Recording and Playback: A Report. 1980. NPBA REF PN 1992.95 .A36 1980

Avery, Robert K., ed. Public Service Broadcasting in a Multi-Channel Environment. New York: Longman, 1993. NPBA REF HD 8689.4 .P83 The Politics of Interconnection: A History of Public Television at the National Level. Washington, DC: National Association of Educational Broadcasters, 1979.

• NPBA REF HE 8700.8 .A85
• LAB Collection: 384.575 A (NAB Books)

Barsamian, David. The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2001. NPBA REF HE 8700.8 .B374 2001

Behrens, Steve, ed. A History of Public Broadcasting. Washington, DC: Current, 2000. NPBA REF HE 8689.6 .W5 2000

Blakely, Robert J. The People's Instrument: A Philosophy of Programming for Public Television. Washington, Public Affairs Press, 1971. BCAST REF PN 1992.8 .P8 B47

Breitenfeld, Frederick, Jr. "Public Broadcasting - The Future May Lie in the Past," Television Quarterly, Vol. XVIII, No. I (Spring 1981): 37-48. Periodicals

Burke, John E. The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. Washington, DC: National Association of Educational Broadcasters, 1973. NPBA REF KF 2805 .Z9 B85 1973

Carden, John. "A Conversation with Henry Loomis," Television Quarterly, Vol. XII, No. 1 (Fall 1974): 37-44. Periodicals

Carnegie Commission on the Future of Public Broadcasting. A Public Trust: The Report of the Carnegie Commission on the Future of Public Broadcasting. New York: Bantam Books, 1979.

• BCAST REF HE 8700.8 .C37 1979
• 384.574 C (NAB Books)

Cater, Douglass and Michael J. Nyhan, eds. The Future of Public Broadcasting. New York: Praeger, 1976.

• BCAST REF HE 8700.8 .F87
• 384.574 C (NAB Books)

Coase, R.H. and Edward W. Barrett. Educational TV: Who Should Pay? Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy, 1965. BCAST REF LB 1044.7 .C54

Corporation for Public Broadcasting. From Wasteland to Oasis: A Quarter Century of Sterling Programming. 1991 Annual Report. Washington, DC: Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1992.
NPBA REF HE 8689.8 .C65b 1991

Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Office of Educational Activities. Patterns of Performance: Public Broadcasting and Education 1974-1976. Washington, DC: Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1977.

• BCAST REF LB 1044.8 .C37
• 371.335 P (NAB Books)

Day, James. The Vanishing Vision: The Inside Story of Public Television. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995. NPBA REF HE 8700.79 .U6 D39

Dirr, Peter J., et al. Higher Education Utilization Study Phase I: Final Report. Washington, D.C. : Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1981. LC 6573 .D56 1981

Dordick, Herbert S., et al. ITV: A User's Guide to the Technology. Washington, DC: Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1979.

• NPBA Collection: LB 1044.8 .D67
• LAB Collection: 621.388 D (NAB Books)

Macy, John W. "Is Anybody Watching," Television Quarterly, Vol. XI, No. 3 (Spring 1974): 44-47. Periodicals

Miller, James. "The President's Advocate: OTP and Broadcast Issues," Journal of Broadcasting, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Summer, 1982): 625-639. Periodicals

Public Telecommunications Review 1973-1980. [Follows: Educational Broadcasting Review] Periodicals

Task Force on Long-Range Financing for Public Broadcasting. Report of the Task Force on Long-Range Financing for Public Broadcasting. Washington, DC: Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1983. PN 1992.8 .P8 C65 1973

Westin, Av. "An Open Memorandum to Mr. John W. Macy, Jr., President, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting," Television Quarterly, Vol. VIII, No. 2 (Spring 1969): 31-46. Periodicals

By Request

"Chamberlin to be No. 2 at Channel 13." The New York Times. August 19, 1970. Folder: 625

Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

• CPB Memo. 1970-1974. Serials
• CPB News. 1969-1973. Serials
• CPB Newsletter. 1969-1972. Serials
• CPB Report. 1975-1993. Serials
• Public Broadcasting: Report to the People. 1970. Folder: 084

Current. 1980-present. Serials

Day, James. "More Than Meets the Eye: America's Reticent Affairs with Public Television." 1990. on shelf

Doan, Richard K. "Public TV's Most Powerful Friend...May Also Qualify as Its Worst Enemy." TV Guide, September 15, 1973: 6-10. Folder: 120

Dorfman, Ron. "John Douglas Callaway is the Best There is, Yes!" The Chicagoan, August 1974. Folder: 123

Duscha, Julia.   "Public TV: why still a stepchild?"  Columbia Journalism Review, November/December 1971: 8-14. Folder: 128

Frank, Karen. "Angling for the Airwaves." Videography. November 1978. Folder: 624

Friedman, John S. "WETA: Behind Closed Doors, Part Two - The Horowitz Affair / WETA Board Votes to Investigate Management. Washington Journalism Review. April/May 1979: 17, 19-20. Folder: 618

Kirkish, Joseph Brady. "A Descriptive History of America's First National Public Radio Network: National Public Radio, 1970 to 1974." University of Michigan, 1980. Dissertations/Theses

O'Connor, John J. "Will a 'Fourth Network' Work?" The New York Times, July 11, 1971. Folder: 761

Price Waterhouse & Company. "Review of Accounting Procedures, Records and Controls of National Educational Television Relating to Costs of the Interconnected Network System and of the Special Projects Unit." October 3, 1969. Folder: 755

Schwarzwalder, John C. "Public Broadcasting Must Clean House." TV Guide. September 30, 1972 / Letters. TV Guide. November 4, 1972. Folder: 617

U.S. Comptroller General. "Report to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives: Financial Transactions of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for Fiscal Year 1972." 1973. Folder: 752

Related Collections in Other Repositories

• Carnegie Commission on Educational Television Records
• Robben W. Fleming Papers
• James Rhyne Killian Papers
• John O. Pastore Papers

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