CPB Grants Help Local Public Television Stations Move Towards a Digital Future

[SOURCE: Corporation for Public Broadcasting]
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) today awarded over $9.7 million to 30 public television stations nationwide. The funds will allow the stations to acquire equipment needed to transmit a digital signal, and eventually to provide digital services, which could range from regional public affairs multicasts to full-time instructional and teacher development channels and the delivery of new community emergency preparedness content. Congress has provided CPB with nearly $220 million in special funding to aid public television and radio's conversion from analog to digital broadcasting. With today's announcement, CPB has distributed grants to 461 public radio stations and 285 public television stations to complete their digital transition. At present, 326 of 356 public television stations are already broadcasting in digital, making public digital television available in approximately 95 percent of U.S. television households. This spring, following a review of remaining conversion needs within the system, CPB expects to initiate the disbursement of the $29.7 million in Fiscal Year 2006 funding recently approved by Congress.
http://www.cpb.org/pressroom/release.php?prn=522

* New York PBS stations land grant for an interconnected TV network
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--pbsgrant0130jan...