The money is distributed through grants and every organization from the smallest, rural public radio station to the largest public television station can apply for grants to the CPB. Each local public television and radio station is independently owned and operated and can choose to be a member of PBS or NPR, but doesn't have to be. But it also gets spent on vital telecommunications technology, emergency signaling services assisting first responders, and digital access.
You can read about some examples here. You can find out how much money comes to your state and exactly how it is distributed here. The best way to understand that funding is that it provides seed money for local stations. Most public television and radio funding is a mix of revenue, the most important of which is public membership, but also includes philanthropic, corporate and local government funding.
The money from CPB is, in essence, conditional on the station being a locally owned and operated entity that is locally programmed by each station. And that is what differentiates it from corporate ownership of local stations. It has to stay local. CPB invests limited funds in the production of innovative, diverse content that aligns with CPB's mission—to provide universal access to high-quality educational programming, especially to underserved audiences. CPB-supported content must be distributed through public media outlets, so collaborative ventures between independent producers and public media stations are highly encouraged.
Depending on the scope of the program, producers may complete the project on their own, or may require assistance from additional funders or a radio or television distributor.
Producers then have to pitch their program to a public media distributor who may market the program to broadcast stations throughout the country. Public media stations fund the content and services they provide to communities across the country with support from CPB's federal appropriation and with contributions from individuals and underwriters.
By law, 95 percent of the federal appropriation CPB receives is provided as grants to local television and radio stations, programming, and improvements to the public broadcasting system. CPB appreciates your interest in learning how to support public media and encourages you to consider contributing to your local public television and radio stations.
You can find your local station information here. CPB invests limited funds in the production of innovative, diverse content that aligns with public media's mission—to provide universal access to high-quality educational programming in the United States, especially to underserved audiences.
CPB-supported content must be distributed through public media outlets, and with that in mind, collaborative ventures between independent producers and public media stations are highly encouraged. Under a framework referred to as the "three Ds" — Digital, Diversity, and Dialogue — CPB's grants support innovation on digital platforms; content that is for, by and about the diverse communities we seek to serve; and content and services that foster dialogue and engagement among members of the audience and the broader community.
CPB's strategic priorities call for programming that focuses on advancing journalism, education, innovation, diversity and content for unserved and underserved communities. CPB considers projects from producers with experience creating nationally recognized work. Productions or collaborative ventures between independent producers and public media stations are encouraged. CPB-supported content must be distributed through U. Funding is subject to the availability of funds and system content needs.
Check our list of other potential funding sources for more. If you are a producer looking to secure CPB funding for a project, read about our Content and Production Grants and email grants cpb. For updates on grants, follow CPBmedia on Twitter or sign up for email updates. Public media's mission is to provide universal access to high-quality educational programming in the U. Generally, CPB does not fund non-U. The Radio Community Service Grant CSG program may accept a limited number of new radio stations each year during a defined application period.
To qualify for a grant from CPB, a radio station must meet a set of eligibility criteria in addition to operating under a noncommercial educational license granted by the U. CPB provides annual funding to public television stations through the Community Service Grant program, but is not accepting applications for new stations at this time, except by waiver.
Skip to main content. Question or comment about the scheduling of a program? Questions about Public Media Who pays for public media? Who creates the programs? On May 5, , President Trump signed P. CPB's appropriation is allocated through a distribution formula established in its authorizing legislation and has historically received two-year advanced appropriations.
They contend that it provides news and information to large segments of the population that seek to understand complex policy issues in depth, and in particular for children's television broadcasting, has a significant and positive impact on early learning and education for children. CPB funding promotes public television and radio stations and their programs. CPB is the largest single source of funding for public television and radio programming. The number of radio and television public broadcasting stations supported by CPB increased from in to 1, in , of which are television stations.
Public broadcasting stations are run by universities, nonprofit community associations, state government agencies, and local school boards, all of which are licensed by the FCC.
CPB is a nonprofit private corporation and is guided by a nine-member board of directors. These directors are appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. The directors serve for staggered six-year terms. CPB's principal function is to receive and distribute the federal appropriation in accordance with the Public Broadcasting Act, supporting qualified public radio and television stations and funding national content.
Seventy percent of the federal appropriation is used to provide Community Service Grants or CSGs to stations that meet specified eligibility criteria. CPB exercises minimum control of program content and other activities of local stations, and is prohibited from owning or operating any of the primary facilities used in broadcasting. In addition, it may not produce, disseminate, or schedule programs.
While federal funding for CPB primarily comes from the Departments of Labor-Health and Human Services-Education appropriations bill as a separate entry under the "Related Agencies" section of that bill, it may receive other sources of funding from the federal government. PBS was created by CPB in to operate and manage a nationwide now satellite program distribution system interconnecting all the local public television stations, and to provide a distribution channel for national programs to those public television stations.
Although PBS does not produce programs for its members, it aggregates funding for the creation and acquisition of programs by and for the stations, and distributes programs through its satellite distribution system. For radio, a different division of responsibilities was established. CPB created National Public Radio NPR in as a news-gathering, production, and program-distribution company governed by its member public radio stations.
Unlike its public television counterpart, NPR is authorized to produce radio programs for its members as well as to provide, acquire, and distribute radio programming through its satellite program distribution system.
NPR Inc. These include reviewing and updating of policies and training with respect to the role of NPR journalists appearing on other media outlets, reviewing and defining their roles including those of news analysts in a changing news environment, and encouraging a broad range of viewpoints to reflect the diversity of NPR's national audiences.
At the same time these recommendations were announced, Ellen Weiss, vice president of news for NPR, resigned; it was also announced that Vivian Schiller, then president and chief executive at NPR, would not receive a bonus for On March 9, , Ms. Schiller resigned, over continued scrutiny and criticism over NPR's handling of an incident regarding Ronald Schiller no relation in a taped interview.
These incidents brought intense scrutiny to NPR from public policymakers. Approximately 42 million people listen to NPR stations weekly; 3. For funding levels, see Table 1.
From the last year of available information, the U. The remaining The largest single income source Federal appropriations which go through CPB to the individual public radio and television stations generally are designated as unrestricted federal funds.
However, member stations also pay NPR fees for content and programming; some contend that federal grant money is supporting part of the revenue streams back to NPR Inc.
A history of CPB appropriations is presented in Table 1. Table 1. CPB Federal Appropriations. Allowance not included in House bill because of lack of authorizing legislation. Transition Quarter funding, during which federal budget year changed from July to September.
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