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Public Broadcasting Act
Great Seal of the United States
Enacted bythe 90th United States Congress
Citations
Public lawPub. L. 90–129
Statutes at Large81 Stat. 365
Legislative history

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 (47 U.S.C. § 396) set up public broadcasting in the United States, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and eventually the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR).

When Lyndon B. Johnson signed the act into law on November 7, 1967, he described its purpose:

It announces to the world that our Nation wants more than just material wealth; our Nation wants more than a "chicken in every pot". We in America have an appetite for excellence, too. While we work every day to produce new goods and to create new wealth, we want most of all to enrich man's spirit. That is the purpose of this act.[1]

More concretely:

It will give a wider and, I think, stronger voice to educational radio and television by providing new funds for broadcast facilities. It will launch a major study of television's use in the Nation's classrooms and their potential use throughout the world. Finally — and most important — it builds a new institution: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

History

Concepts

Public broadcasting includes multiple media outlets, which receive some or all of their funding from the public. The main media outlets consist of radio and television. Public broadcasting consists of organizations such as Corporation of Public Broadcasting, Public Broadcasting Service, and National Public Radio. CPB, PBS, and NPR are independent of each other and of the local public television and radio stations across the country. [2]

CPB was created by the federal government and is funded by the federal government, which does not produce or distribute any programming. [3]

Public Broadcasters

Implications

Recent Developments

References

Wikisource has original text related to this article:
  1. ^ Remarks of President Lyndon B. Johnson Upon Signing the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 at cpb.org
  2. ^ "Corporation of Public Broadcasting".
  3. ^ "Corporation of Public Broadcasting".

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