ITVS PRODUCTION: 2008–2010

Independent Television Service

San Francisco, CA

$11,800,000

A three-year grant to fund the production and/or acquisition of content by ITVS, a programming service mandated by the Public Broadcasting Act. ITVS programs appear on the weekly series Independent Lens. ITVS also places independent content on every major public television strand (such as Frontline, American Experience, and P.O.V.), and delivers program specials for the National Programming Service.

Our Non-Licensee Partner(s)

Independent Television Service (ITVS), San Francisco, California—ITVS is the private, not-for-profit organization created in 1991 to serve as the independent production service that CPB is directed by statute to fund as a re-granting organization, fostering the development of independent producers and production organizations.