Resolution of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
September 22, 2010
2010 TV CSG Management Recommendations
8 in favor; 1 abstention
WHEREAS,
Under the provision of the Public Broadcasting Act, CPB makes grants to eligible public television stations in a manner intended to provide for the needs and requirements of stations so that they may serve their local communities and audiences; and
WHEREAS,
The Community Service Grant program is the primary mechanism for CPB to provide this financial support to local stations; and
WHEREAS,
The economic and media environment in which public television operates has changed significantly since the last Community Service Grant (CSG) policy review, bring new challenges and opportunities to public television; and
WHEREAS,
CPB management has completed a consultation with the public television system that considered changes to CSG policy, convening a panel of television station representatives and inviting and receiving extensive comment directly from public television stations as part of this consultation process; and
WHEREAS,
The Community Service Grant Review Panel has made a series of recommendations to CPB management, those recommendations have been reviewed by management, refined, shared with the public television system for further comment, and now are recommended by management to the CPB Board.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT
The CPB Board of Directors hereby adopts CPB management's recommendations for changes to television Community Service Grant policy in the attached report, as revised by the CPB Board in its meeting of September 22, 2010.