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The CPB Board of Directors will meet September 19 - 20, 2011

• For Immediate Release on September 13, 2011

The CPB Board of Directors will meet in Washington, D.C. on Monday, September 19 from 9:30 – 11:30am and from 2:30 – 5:00 pm and Tuesday, September 20 from 9:00 am – 12:30 pm.

On the draft agenda:

Day One (September 19):

• Chair’s and Directors’ Remarks
• President’s Report to the Board
• Committee Chair Reports
• Legislative Update
• PBS Update
• Update on 2011 Business Plan Initiatives including a preview of “Prohibition” by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick; Joint Master Control for New York Public Television Stations; Digital Funding Priorities
• Annual Review of Conflicts of Interest Disclosure Form
• Review of FY 2012 Operating Budget
• Review of Goals and Objectives and Proposed FY 2012 Business Plan (portions in executive session)
• Review of Executive Session Minutes (executive session)
• Review of Supplemental Schedules of FY 2012 Operating Budget (executive session)

Day Two (September 20):

• Election of Chair and Vice Chair
• Review of Draft FY 2012 Business Plan - continued from Day 1 (executive session)
• Update on Music Royalties (executive session)
• Review/Approval of Senior Executives to Serve on Outside Boards (executive session)
• “Lidia Celebrates America”
• Update on American Graduate Initiative
• Discussion on Proposed Calendar Year 2012 Meeting Dates and Locations
• Future Agenda Items

With the exception of the executive session, the public may attend and listen to these meetings 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 1,300 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.