Corporation for Public Broadcasting
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National Public Radio
- In National Public Radio: NPR’s first broadcast
…this reason, Congress created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which on February 26, 1970, established NPR to provide programming to the country’s noncommercial and educational radio stations, most of them situated at the low end of the FM radio dial.
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Public Broadcasting Service
- In Public Broadcasting Service
…Broadcasting Act (1967), the government-funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) was established, and in 1969 it founded the Public Broadcasting Service as a successor to NET. The PBS broadcast network debuted in 1970. In its initial years, PBS featured such acclaimed programming as the children’s shows Sesame Street (begun 1969)…
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television history in the U.S.
- In Television in the United States: Educational TV
…for the creation of a Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). This body was prohibited from owning stations or producing programs and was to function as a mechanism through which federal funds were distributed to educational stations and program producers. In 1969 the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) was formed to facilitate…
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