CPB Requires Stations Meet Criteria To Receive Grants

The Corporation For Public Broadcasting has voted unanimously to require that the majority of programming broadcast by multicasting noncommercial TV stations in the digital world meet CPB's programming criteria if they want to get Community Service Grants. The money can be used for a host of purposes including programming production, DTV upgrades, fund-raising, management and more. The criteria is that the programming "must be devoted to quality programming that serves demonstrated community needs of an educational, informational and cultural nature within its primary signal area. Such programming is intended for a general audience." Not qualifying is programming that primarily furthers a political or religious philosophy and, interestingly, one primarily for in-school use.
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