For nearly 25 years, Current has been the newspaper about public broadcasting in the United States.
The paper comes out biweekly, usually every other Monday, 23 times a year.
It's read by people involved in public TV and public radio — station employees, independent producers, local volunteers and board members, viewers and listeners, state and national policymakers and others.
In a field of autonomous stations and independent producers, split between TV and radio and spread around a very large country, the most widely read periodical serves as one of the few shared resources—public broadcasting's meeting place.
Current is an editorially independent journalistic service of Current LLC, an affiliate of Educational Broadcasting Corp., operator of public TV stations WNET and WLIW in New York City.
The newspaper founded in 1980 by the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, a forerunner and parent of both PBS and NPR. NAEB was to last only two years, however, and a publishing committee raised funds to resume publication at Educational Broadcasting Corp.
See our timeline of the newspaper's history and the 20th anniversary message from the editor.
Web page revised Feb. 21, 2008
Current: the newspaper about public TV and radio
in the United States
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