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public broadcasting

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public broadcasting: see broadcasting broadcasting, transmission of sound or images to a large number of receivers by radio or television. In the United States the first regularly scheduled radio broadcasts began in 1920 at 8XK (later KDKA) in Pittsburgh.
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His actions, including using some sort of political barometer in appointing former Republican National Committee co-chairwoman Patricia Harrison as the CPB's president, were deemed violations of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, which prevents political interference in tax-supported public broadcasts.
Halpern, a major Republican fund-raiser, has been elected the new chairwoman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
In 1992, after conservative senators raised a stink about some programs on the leftist Pacifica radio network, Congress attached its subsidy for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to a rule reiterating the need for "objectivity and balance.
 
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