The House Appropriations Committee Tues. restored $20 million of ...
The House Appropriations Committee Tues. restored $20 million of $115 million in public broadcasting funding cut last week by the Labor-HSS Subcommittee. While restoring CPB 2007 funding levels to $400 million, it didn’t provide advance CPB appropriation for FY…
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2009, or FY 2007 funding for public TV and radio digital conversion. It also eliminated funding for Ready to Learn. CPB Pres. Pat Harrison said public broadcasters’ funding request marks “both a strong commitment to fiscal restraint and a firm understanding of the value and service that public broadcasting offers.” Public broadcasters understand the “difficult choices” House appropriators face, but they are “nonetheless committed to funding levels in our original request,” she said. “It’s a shame that a majority of the House Appropriations Committee has decided to put Congress through another fight over funding for public broadcasting,” said APTS Pres. John Lawson. Many members decry indecency on TV but voted to kill funding for noncommercial educational kids’ programming, he said: “They call for improving education and teacher quality, but zero out funding that uses technology to bring professional development to teachers.” The appropriators voted against funding public TV’s satellite interconnection system while colleagues introduced a bill that would make it the backbone of a new national emergency alert system, he said. They also cut funds for digital broadcasting when Congress mandated an end to analog broadcasting, he said: “This action seems to be [in] willful disregard [of] what public broadcasting means to America.”