The Ford Foundation is spending
$50 million over five years on public media grants, including $10M to PBS and $7.5M to NPR, the
New York Times reported. The PBS grant will back new programming ideas and help start the PBS Foundation. It was not clear whether the $50M sum includes $2 million to
ITVS for international viewpoints, $1.8M given this year to
Link TV, $1M to American University's
Center for Social Media, $600,000 to
Consumers Union for media policy work or $300,000 to
Prometheus Radio Project for work in grassroots radio. The foundation
spent millions to start public TV stations and develop national programming for them in the 1950s and 1960s.
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