Category:Public Broadcasting

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Public Broadcasting

Public broadcasting Broadcasting not supported by commercial interests either on a national scale like the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) or on a more restricted basis like the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) in the US.

European Broadcasting Union Founded in 1950 with its headquarters in Geneva, it deals with radio and television broadcasting on a world scale. It arranges the exchange of programs between various networks.

1. Eurovision Subdivision which arranges international television exchanges, best known for its Eurovision Song Contest.
   1. Eurovision Song Contest Competition for Europe’s favorite song, annual event by Eurovision, which allows only 6 musicians on stage including the lead vocalist, all of whom must perform live, and the singers can only use their own language, begun 1956.

Intervision East European version of Eurovision.

International Radio and Television Organization (OIRT)

BBC

BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) (nicknamed, Auntie) Started broadcasting in 1922 and came under government control when it became a corporation by royal charter, granted on 1 January 1926, but remained free to manage its own policy and decide the contents of its programs.

1. Broadcasting House Headquarters of the BBC in London.
   1. Radio 1 BBC radio channel for general entertainment.
   2. Radio 2 BBC radio channel for more serious programs.
   3. Radio 3 BBC radio channel.
   4. Radio 4 BBC radio channel.
   5. Local radio Radio station in various parts of the country.
2. BBC World Service Broadcasts worldwide.
   1. Bush House Headquarters in central London of the BBC World Service.
3. BBC Television Center Main television studios of the BBC in west London.
   1. BBC 1 Main television entertainment channel.
   2. BBC 2 More serious television channel.

BBC Motion Gallery BBC's film-footage licensing arm.

BBC Library Sales Division of BBC Worldwide Limited, offers media professionals in advertising, commercials, television, film, interactive and corporate video production access to the world's most comprehensive collection of high-quality motion imagery for licensing worldwide. With more than 500 million feet of film and 300,000 hours of video, BBC Library Sales encompasses a wealth of content covering natural history, wildlife, news, locations, art, music, celebrities, culture, performing arts and more, including acclaimed programming produced in conjunction with Discovery and PBS.

Note BBC Library Sales is also the exclusive global representative of the CBS News Archive, one of the world's most-respected news collections featuring coverage of virtually every historical event in the last 50 years.

Public Broadcasting System

Corporation of Public Broadcasting (CPB) (AmE) Federally funded abd chartered nonprofit corporation and the largest single source of money for US public television and radio programming, including PBS and National Public Radio. It is governed by a presidentially appointed board. It promotes development of public radio and television. It is a loose affiliation of stations presenting programs of superior quality and supported by government grants, commercial sponsorship and public subscription.

1. Public Broadcast Laboratory Forerunner of PBS.
2. Public Broadcasting System (PBS)

Death of Public Broadcasting CPB Chairman, Kenneth Tomlinson, turned the administration's discomfort at embarrassing disclosures into a crusade to discredit CPB journalism. Tomlinson left the chairmanship November 2005 but the Rightwing coup at public broadcasting was complete. He remains on the board under a new chair who is a former real estate director and Republican fund raiser. She told a Senate hearing that the CPB should have the authority to penalize public broadcasting journalists if they step out of line. Also on the board is another Bush appointee - also a partisan Republican activist - who was a charter member and chair of Newt Gingrich's notorious political action committee, GOPAC. Reporting to them is the White House's handpicked candidate to be President and chief executive officer of the CPB - a former co-chair of the Republican National Committee whose husband became PR director of the Chemical Manufacturers Association after he had helped the pesticide industry smear Rachel Carson for her classic work on the environment, “Silent Spring.” There will be no challenging journalism to come from public television while they are around; no investigative reporting on the environment; no reporting at all on conflicts of interest between government and big business; no naming of names.

1. Kenneth Tomlinson Former board chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting accused by critics of trying to politicize public television and radio, resigned from the board, 3 November 2005.
2. Republican chair Veteran Republican Party fund-raisers Cheryl Halpern and Gay Hart Gaines were elected in September 2005 as CPB board chairman and vice chair, respectively.