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		<title>Second pubTV station pays fine for missteps handling federal grants</title>
		<link>http://www.current.org/2013/01/second-pubtv-station-pays-fine-for-missteps-handling-federal-grants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.current.org/2013/01/second-pubtv-station-pays-fine-for-missteps-handling-federal-grants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dru Sefton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[NEA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts announced a settlement with Boston’s WGBH over its handling of $60 million in federal grant funds, it was the second time in two years that a major producing station had come under scrutiny by auditors for its handling of grant monies for public TV productions. <a href="http://www.current.org/2013/01/second-pubtv-station-pays-fine-for-missteps-handling-federal-grants/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Crowd rallies to save pubcasting funding</title>
		<link>http://www.current.org/2012/11/crowd-rallies-on-capitol-hill-for-million-puppet-march-to-save-pubcasting-funding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.current.org/2012/11/crowd-rallies-on-capitol-hill-for-million-puppet-march-to-save-pubcasting-funding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dru Sefton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[System/Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Television programs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sesame Street]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some 1,000 marchers gathered on Nov. 3 on Capitol Hill to celebrate the power of public television. <a href="http://www.current.org/2012/11/crowd-rallies-on-capitol-hill-for-million-puppet-march-to-save-pubcasting-funding/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Big Bird: What is public media’s value today?</title>
		<link>http://www.current.org/2012/10/beyond-big-bird-what-is-public-medias-value-today/</link>
		<comments>http://www.current.org/2012/10/beyond-big-bird-what-is-public-medias-value-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawn Morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[System/Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Presidential Debates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When every year seems to bring a new round of threats to public media funding, it’s clear that public media isn’t doing a very good job of asserting its value. Maybe its detractors have more money and better lobbyists, but clearly the “Save Big Bird” tactic is only a Band-Aid, and one that’s getting worn out from overuse. <a href="http://www.current.org/2012/10/beyond-big-bird-what-is-public-medias-value-today/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Key GOP lawmaker to CPB:  Pubcasting needs a new pitch on Capitol Hill</title>
		<link>http://www.current.org/2012/09/key-gop-lawmaker-to-cpb-pubcasting-needs-a-new-pitch-on-capitol-hill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.current.org/2012/09/key-gop-lawmaker-to-cpb-pubcasting-needs-a-new-pitch-on-capitol-hill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Lapin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[System/Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPB Board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Don Young]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Earl Blumenauer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[House Republican Don Young, the 39-year veteran representative from Alaska’s at-large district and a longtime backer of public broadcasting, told the Corporation for Public Broadcasting board of directors Tuesday that the field would be more likely to find support in &#8230; <a href="http://www.current.org/2012/09/key-gop-lawmaker-to-cpb-pubcasting-needs-a-new-pitch-on-capitol-hill/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>CPB report to Capitol Hill countering &#8220;continued and pervasive&#8221; opposition to federal funding</title>
		<link>http://www.current.org/2012/09/cpb-report-to-capitol-hill-countering-continued-and-pervasive-opposition-to-federal-funding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.current.org/2012/09/cpb-report-to-capitol-hill-countering-continued-and-pervasive-opposition-to-federal-funding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Lapin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[appropriations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPB funding]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CPB&#8217;s financial analysis on alternative funding sources for public broadcasting, prepared by consultants at Booz &#38; Co.  and delivered to Congress in June, has had little impact on lawmakers&#8217; views about continuation of CPB&#8217;s annual federal appropriation to date, CPB &#8230; <a href="http://www.current.org/2012/09/cpb-report-to-capitol-hill-countering-continued-and-pervasive-opposition-to-federal-funding/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>APTS combats latest bids to defund CPB</title>
		<link>http://www.current.org/2012/05/apts-combats-latest-bids-to-defund-cpb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.current.org/2012/05/apts-combats-latest-bids-to-defund-cpb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 16:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhys Heyden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quick Takes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two of pubcasting’s chief critics on Capitol Hill have revived their bids to end CPB funding. Republican lawmakers Rep. Doug Lamborn (Colo.) and Sen. Jim DeMint (S.C.) circulated letters last week asking colleagues to help them “permanently defund” CPB. They &#8230; <a href="http://www.current.org/2012/05/apts-combats-latest-bids-to-defund-cpb/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>NEA allotted this year’s media aid ‘to present art in new and . . . engaging ways’</title>
		<link>http://www.current.org/2012/04/nea-allotted-this-years-media-aid-to-present-art-in-new-and-engaging-ways/</link>
		<comments>http://www.current.org/2012/04/nea-allotted-this-years-media-aid-to-present-art-in-new-and-engaging-ways/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dru Sefton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[System/Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grants]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soon, listeners will hear celebrities read James Joyce’s entire masterpiece Ulysses via satellite and Internet radio; a New York City theater will use video-game technology to invent a new medium for the performing arts; and a San Francisco-based organization will &#8230; <a href="http://www.current.org/2012/04/nea-allotted-this-years-media-aid-to-present-art-in-new-and-engaging-ways/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>At APTS summit, public TV remembers which way ‘up’ is</title>
		<link>http://www.current.org/2012/02/at-apts-summit-public-tv-remembers-which-way-up-is/</link>
		<comments>http://www.current.org/2012/02/at-apts-summit-public-tv-remembers-which-way-up-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dru Sefton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“What a difference a year makes,” Patrick Butler, president of the Association of Public Television Stations, told the crowd at the group’s Public Media Summit on Feb. 27 in Arlington, Va. Last year at this time, the House of Representatives &#8230; <a href="http://www.current.org/2012/02/at-apts-summit-public-tv-remembers-which-way-up-is/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>NPR rooted in stations that still require federal dollars</title>
		<link>http://www.current.org/2011/12/npr-rooted-in-stations-that-still-require-federal-dollars/</link>
		<comments>http://www.current.org/2011/12/npr-rooted-in-stations-that-still-require-federal-dollars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Janssen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[System/Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Knell]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://current.org/?p=16361</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When Gary Knell officially started work this month as NPR’s president, he probably found no shortage of ideas about what he should do with an organization that has recently survived bad headlines, turmoil at the top and a near-death experience &#8230; <a href="http://www.current.org/2011/12/npr-rooted-in-stations-that-still-require-federal-dollars/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>APTS operating without dues from 1/4 of stations</title>
		<link>http://www.current.org/2011/11/apts-operating-without-dues-from-14-of-stations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.current.org/2011/11/apts-operating-without-dues-from-14-of-stations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Lapin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Butler]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A drop in dues-paying members over the last three years has diminished the resources of the Association of Public Television Stations at an especially critical time for the Washington-based lobbying organization. APTS’ membership has fallen to 75 percent of public &#8230; <a href="http://www.current.org/2011/11/apts-operating-without-dues-from-14-of-stations/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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