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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>
				<category><![CDATA[System/Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[APTS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal funding]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Butler]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://current.org/?p=17460</guid>
		<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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		<title>Stewards for the media future</title>
		<link>http://www.current.org/2010/10/stewards-for-the-media-future/</link>
		<comments>http://www.current.org/2010/10/stewards-for-the-media-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Behrens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Public media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategic planning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the first part of this commentary in Current Oct. 4 [2010], Wick Rowland, an early PBS planner and now a station leader in Colorado, said that public broadcasting’s failure to put time and money into formal research and planning &#8230; <a href="http://www.current.org/2010/10/stewards-for-the-media-future/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>APTS Awards for 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.current.org/2010/06/apts-awards-for-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.current.org/2010/06/apts-awards-for-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>currentadmin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards in public media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[APTS]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Louis Sullivan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Association of Public Television Stations thanked advocates beyond the D.C. Beltway APTS gave its David J. Brugger Grassroots Advocacy Award to Dr. Louis Sullivan, board chair of the Atlanta Educational Telecommunications Collaborative Inc. and former U.S. secretary of health &#8230; <a href="http://www.current.org/2010/06/apts-awards-for-2009/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>APTS preps proposals for ‘American Archive,’ copyright legislation</title>
		<link>http://www.current.org/2007/02/qa-with-john-lawson-apts-preps-proposals-for-american-archive-copyright-legislation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.current.org/2007/02/qa-with-john-lawson-apts-preps-proposals-for-american-archive-copyright-legislation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>currentadmin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[System/Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Archive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[APTS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copyright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Lawson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lobbying]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://currentlikenow.org/?p=2480</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While the Association of Public Television Stations and its member stations&#8217; activists will be busy enough fighting off the cutback of more than $140 million just proposed by the White House (separate story), the group is working on a slate &#8230; <a href="http://www.current.org/2007/02/qa-with-john-lawson-apts-preps-proposals-for-american-archive-copyright-legislation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Shadows in the corridors</title>
		<link>http://www.current.org/2007/02/shadows-in-the-corridors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.current.org/2007/02/shadows-in-the-corridors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Behrens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[System/Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congressional aides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lobbying]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The scene: a small conference room of the Senate Committee on Commerce, late on a February afternoon. The players: a senior committee staffer and her longtime acquaintance, a public broadcasting general manager. The author is president of Colorado Public Television &#8230; <a href="http://www.current.org/2007/02/shadows-in-the-corridors/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Show me a better deal than public TV</title>
		<link>http://www.current.org/1998/09/show-me-a-better-deal-than-public-tv/</link>
		<comments>http://www.current.org/1998/09/show-me-a-better-deal-than-public-tv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 1998 20:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Behrens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Why public media?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[APTS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPB appropriation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lobbying]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.current.org/?p=21099</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two years after the CPB funding crisis began to subside, public TV&#8217;s assigned public-policy representative, the president of America&#8217;s Public Television Stations (APTS), was giving variations on this stump speech at meetings of pubcasters. This is an edited version of &#8230; <a href="http://www.current.org/1998/09/show-me-a-better-deal-than-public-tv/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Citizens’ group organizes to back full CPB funding</title>
		<link>http://www.current.org/1996/03/citizens-group-organizes-to-back-full-cpb-funding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.current.org/1996/03/citizens-group-organizes-to-back-full-cpb-funding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 1996 14:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Behrens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal funding]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.current.org/?p=24416</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A professional campaign firm has begun setting up a Citizens&#8217; Committee for Public Broadcasting to coordinate grassroots support for &#8220;full funding&#8221; of CPB. Proposed and organized by a New York consumer rights lawyer, Donald Ross, the committee has startup funding &#8230; <a href="http://www.current.org/1996/03/citizens-group-organizes-to-back-full-cpb-funding/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>All those letters — what do they mean to Congress?</title>
		<link>http://www.current.org/1995/02/all-those-letters-what-do-they-mean-to-congress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.current.org/1995/02/all-those-letters-what-do-they-mean-to-congress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 1995 13:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Behrens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quick Takes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Letters to Congress Federal funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lobbying]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.current.org/?p=24406</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For an industry that has &#8220;elitist&#8221; planted on its back like a hard-to-reach sticky label, the most critical piece of public broadcasting&#8217;s campaign to save itself may be the grassroots response. Opponents of CPB funding in Congress complain they&#8217;re swamped &#8230; <a href="http://www.current.org/1995/02/all-those-letters-what-do-they-mean-to-congress/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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