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==History== | ==History== | ||
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was created on November 7, 1967, when U.S. president | The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was created on November 7, 1967, when U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the [[Public Broadcasting Act of 1967]]. The new organization initially collaborated with the [[National Educational Television]] network—which would be replaced by the [[Public Broadcasting Service]] (PBS). Ward Chamberlin Jr. was the first operating officer.<ref>{{cite web|title = Statement from Paula Kerger, President & CEO, PBS on Ward Chamberlin Jr.|url = https://www.pbs.org/about/blogs/news/statement-from-paula-kerger-president-ceo-pbs-on-ward-chamberlin-jr/|publisher = PBS|access-date = February 25, 2017|url-status = live|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170226132354/http://www.pbs.org/about/blogs/news/statement-from-paula-kerger-president-ceo-pbs-on-ward-chamberlin-jr/|archive-date = February 26, 2017}}</ref> On March 27, 1968, it was registered as a nonprofit corporation in the District of Columbia.<ref name="PBS Timeline">{{cite web |title = PBS Timeline |url = http://www.cpb.org/aboutcpb/history-timeline |publisher = PBS |access-date = February 29, 2016 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171213203813/https://www.cpb.org/aboutcpb/history-timeline |archive-date = December 13, 2017 }}</ref> In 1969, the CPB talked to private groups to start PBS, an entity intended by the CPB to circumvent controversies engendered by certain NET public affairs programs that aired in the late 1960s and engendered opposition by politically [[conservatism in the United States|conservative]] public figures, potentially threatening the medium's future viability.<ref name="gardner">{{cite web|title = Thematic Window: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting|url = https://www.pbs.org/johngardner/chapters/4d.html|publisher = PBS|access-date = October 16, 2009|url-status = live|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090811071751/http://www.pbs.org/johngardner/chapters/4d.html|archive-date = August 11, 2009}}</ref> | ||
On February 26, 1970, the CPB formed [[National Public Radio]] (NPR), a [[radio network|network]] of public-radio stations that began operating the following year. Unlike PBS, NPR produces ''and'' distributes programming.<ref name="PBS Timeline"/> On May 31, 2002, the CPB, through special appropriation funding, helped public television stations making the transition to digital broadcasting; this was complete by 2009.<ref name="PBS Timeline"/> | On February 26, 1970, the CPB formed [[National Public Radio]] (NPR), a [[radio network|network]] of public-radio stations that began operating the following year. Unlike PBS, NPR produces ''and'' distributes programming.<ref name="PBS Timeline"/> On May 31, 2002, the CPB, through special appropriation funding, helped public television stations making the transition to digital broadcasting; this was complete by 2009.<ref name="PBS Timeline"/> | ||
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| | | George W. Bush (2008), [[Barack Obama]] (2013), [[Political appointments by Donald Trump|Donald Trump]] (2019) | ||
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| | | George W. Bush (2008), [[Barack Obama]] (2014), [[List of political appointments by Joe Biden|Joe Biden]] (2022) | ||
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