Corporation for Public Broadcasting Overview
Organization, Functions, and Funding Structure
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) was incorporated as a private nonprofit corporation in the District of Columbia under the authority of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. The CPB was intended to provide a funding mechanism for individual public broadcasting stations, but not subject these stations to political influence or favoritism. CPB was also intended to provide a funding mechanism for the creation and operation of program distribution systems interconnecting the individual public broadcasting stations. Therefore, the CPB receives an annual appropriation and then uses this money to provide grants to individual public television and radio broadcast entities, and…
