CPB Media Room

The CPB Board of Directors will meet on Friday, March 6, 2009

  • For Immediate Release on February 25, 2009

The CPB Board of Directors will meet on Friday, March 6, 2009 from 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm ET in Washington, DC. On the draft agenda:

- Chair's and Directors' Remarks and Reports

- Appointment of New Chair, PAI Committee

- President's Report

- Update on Appropriations

- Resolution: Supplemental Appropriations Request

- Report and Resolution on Digital Funding Priorities

- Discussion of Proposed Framework for Ensuring Services and Next Steps

- Update on Aspen Institute Communications & Society Program Roundtable on Public Service Media

The public may attend and observe this meeting in the Blair-Killian Board Room of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

About CPB

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 1,300 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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CPB promotes the growth and development of public media in communities throughout America.

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