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The Station Activities Benchmarking Study (SABS) survey collects standard financial and operational information for all public television licensees. This complete industry data should provide stations and national organizations with a tool to support decision-making, to understand performance issues, to identify improvement opportunities, and to move towards defined objectives.

All CPB-supported TV grant recipients are required to complete this survey. (Information about the Station Activity Survey will be sent to your station separately.)

Please Note

The SABS survey questions refer to your station's Fiscal Year reporting period and should be consistent with your audited financial statements.

Public Media Data Collection Project

CPB currently collects data from stations via the Annual Financial Report (AFR), the Station Activity Survey (SAS) and the Station Activities Benchmarking Study (SABS). The Public Media Data Collection Project is focused on reviewing the data collected in SABS and SAS and refining the questions to ensure that it continues to meet the needs of national organizations and stations, while reducing the station effort of submitting the data. A task force of representatives from stations and national organizations was formed to advise CPB on the project. Additional information about the task force and the project is available in the meeting summary. Questions or suggestions may be addressed to Datacollection@cpb.org.

• Public Media Data Taskforce October 28, 2010 Meeting Summary 109KB PDF

SABS Contact

If you need assistance please contact CPB at (866) 635-ISIS [4747] or by e-mail at sabs@cpb.org.