CPB Media Room

The CPB Board of Directors Will Meet on Monday, June 4 and Tuesday, June 5, 2012

  • For Immediate Release on May 29, 2012

The CPB Board of Directors will meet in Washington, D.C. on Monday, June 4 from 9:30 am – 4:00 pm and Tuesday, June 5 from 9:30 – 11:00 am.

On the draft agenda:

Day One (June 4):

  • Review and Approval of Public and Executive Session Minutes
  • Chair’s and Directors’ Remarks
  • President’s Report to the Board
  • Committee Chair Reports
  • Legislative Update
  • Discussion of FY 2013 Preliminary Operating Budget
  • Discussion of Strategic Priorities for FY 2013 Business Plan
  • Update on Report to Congress re Alternative Sources of Funding (executive session)
  • Report on American Graduate
  • Update on CSG Grants Management Software Agreement (executive session)
  • Report on Public Media Platform (executive session)
  • Discussion of the Minority Television Project, Inc. v. FCC (executive session)
Day Two (June 5):
  • PBS Primetime – Fall Preview
  • Update on the American Archive (executive session)
  • Report on Rural Digital Program
  • Update on 2012 TV CSG Policy
  • 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.

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