CPB Media Room

CPB Board of Directors to Meet Thursday, July 16, 2009

  • For Immediate Release on July 10, 2009

The CPB Board of Directors will meet telephonically on Thursday, July 16, 2009 from 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm ET. On the draft agenda:

* Personnel Matter (executive session)

* Chair's and Directors' Remarks and Reports

* President's Report

* Committee Chair Reports

* Follow up Report on Aspen Institute Roundtable on Public Media

* Stations in Financial Distress Update

* TV CSG Policy Considerations

* Review of Revised FY 2010 Goals and Objectives

* Review of Fall Meeting Dates

With the exception of the executive session, the public may attend and listen to this meeting in the Blair-Killian Board Room, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 401 Ninth Street, NW, Washington, D.C.

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 1,400 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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CPB promotes the growth and development of public media in communities throughout America.

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