CPB Media Room

CPB Board of Directors to Meet Thursday, June 1, 2006

  • For Immediate Release on May 26, 2006

The CPB Board of Directors will meet in a special telephonic public session Thursday, June 1, 2006, at 3:30 pm. Items on the agenda include discussion and voting on proposed amendments to Section 2.10 of the CPB By-Laws specifying the process for assigning additional duties to the Board of Directors and officers and methods for conducting board action; agreements related to Ready to Learn; and other business related to officer service on outside nonprofit boards. The public may attend and observe this meeting in the Blair-Killian Board Room of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a private, nonprofit corporation created by Congress in 1967, is the steward of the federal government's investment in public broadcasting. It helps support the operations of more than 1,400 locally-owned and -operated public television and radio stations nationwide, and is the largest single source of funding for research, technology, and program development for public radio, television and related online services.

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