NONCOMMERCIAL BROADCASTING

CARNEGIE COMMISSION REPORT OF 1966

PUBLIC BROADCASTING ACT OF 1967

CPB—Corporation for Public Broadcasting

PBS (Public Broadcasting System)

WNIT [Elkhart/South Bend]
WTTW [Chicago]
WGHB [Boston]

WNET [New York]

NPR (National Public Radio)

WVPE

 

ISSUES
1. EDITORIALIZING

F.C.C. V. LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF CALIFORNIA (1984)
No noncommercial educational broadcasting station [which receives a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting] may engage in editorializing. P. 197

2. RIGHT OF ACCESS TO A PUBLIC FORUM

"Death of a Princess" Cases

MUIR V. ALABAMA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION
COMMISSION (5th Cir. 1982)

BARNSTONE V. UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON (5th Cir.
1982)

1. viewers do not have a right of access to public stations

2. there is no public right to compel a broadcast

3.public broadcasters have a broad editorial discretion with respect to what they broadcast

2* Access to Debates on Public Television:

ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION COMMISSION V. FORBES (1998)

Traditional public forum

Designated public forum

Nonpublic forum

PP. 190-191, 193

3. BALANCE

sec. 396(g)(1)(A): CPB "must strictly adhere to objectivity and balance in all programs . . . of a controversial nature.."

Accuracy in Media, Inc. v. F.C.C. (D.C. Cir 1975)

Summer of 2005

Balance

Postcards from Buster

Threatened budget cuts

Indecency

A Company of Soldiers

 

4. GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA

"A federal statute forbids use of taxpayers' money for progaganda purposes without express authorization of congress." p. 200