Archived Grants

Research

CPB seeks a senior audience research analyst to provide leadership and technical guidance for CPB's strategic development, analysis, understanding and application of a major quantitative research study known as the 2008 Audience Awareness, Attitudes and Usage Study.

Funds research to establish remaining RF/rechannelization needs of a pre-determined group of public television stations with respect to completion of their conversion from analog to digital transmission of over-the-air broadcast signals.

Funds research into the understanding of public television's audience and its motivations and how, if at all, these motivations have changed since 2004.

Funds research to help determine a strategic direction that will lead to programming that will improve public radio listening among African-Americans.

Funds materials and research for the Digital Rights Task Force that give an overview of the digital environment.

Funds a web-based application transforming audience research data into a query based, interactive, graphical interface.

CPB seeks a research firm to conduct formative research with children ages 3-5 from low-income environments to test their responses to twelve individual interactive games as they relate to preliminary indicators of reading impact.

CPB is requesting proposals on seven mutually exclusive research topics regarding objectivity and balance in public broadcasting.

CPB is requesting proposals on two mutually exclusive research topics regarding objectivity and balance in public broadcasting.

CPB seeks an objective scan of public broadcasting's existing activities in terms of digital new media content and use of related technologies, in order to help determine how and to what extent the public broadcasting organizations are using new media tools to provide services to the general public and to teachers and students in formal education.

This Request for Proposals is for a quick, but extensive scan and analysis of best practices in the use of digital new media in journalism, both within and outside U.S. public broadcasting and related organizations, domestically and internationally.

Design, implement, analyze and report on what impact, if any, the local mortgage crisis initiative has in up to three selected markets, the level of engagement achieved in each of the measured markets and any change in awareness of the participating public broadcasting licensee(s) that has occurred as a result of the mortgage crisis initiative.

CPB will be accepting applications for Round 14 DDF grants from CPB-qualified, non-commercial educational (NCE) television licensees for Priority One: Digital Television Transmission Facilities and Priority Two: Digital Master Control Services projects.

This Request for Quotes is for a person or firm with experience translating research results into easy-to-understand text for popular audiences to draft up to eight (8) media pieces that CPB can repurpose for various media outlets, stakeholders, and audiences, and write, create, design, and produce a final research report summarizing the activities and findings of the Ready To Learn Initiative.

CPB is interested in measuring the impact of the Program Challenge Fund tent pole program scheduling strategy. To that end, CPB will order and analyze available Nielsen NSI ratings data. CPB is now seeking proposals for a research study (or studies) designed to add insight beyond the Nielsen data with respect to both the tent pole program scheduling strategy as well as the awareness, attitudes, and usage of a segment of the target audience (i.e. Hispanic television viewers).