Archived Grants

TV Programming

CPB is seeking the services of an outside vendor to design, implement and analyze a quantitative research study of adults 18+ who watch television in primetime.

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.

Each scholarship will include the cost of the workshop, and reasonable expenses for airfare, hotel accommodations, meals, and limited ground transportation.

Awards scholarships for an intensive seven-day, hands-on training seminar at WGBH in Boston.

Funds programs that examine and explain where we are and where we're going as a nation — programs that elevate, enlighten, entertain, and, most importantly, rise above the minutiae of the moment and see the big picture.

Supports new, groundbreaking media projects that measurably improve the learning of American history and enhance civic participation among middle and high school students.

WETA News Academy 2008 is an intensive, five day residential course designed to offer applicants experience in the practical and technical capabilities of contemporary local news gathering and reporting, both on TV and online.

CPB requests proposals from qualified organizations to manage the Station-Based Election Programming Initiative.

The Station-Based Election Programming Initiative (SEPI) provides grant funding to enable local public broadcasting stations to create television programs and multi-platform media content about 2008 election issues.

CPB Ready To Learn Statewide Planning Agreements will provide funding to public broadcasting stations to work in collaboration with state education agencies to assess, align, and integrate research-tested and curriculum-based RTL products and services into early childhood education. This funding opportunity will enable a partnership between Stations and State Education Agencies to design, pilot and execute an initial plan for integrating RTL digital media reading resources into Pre-K through second grade classrooms, and in other learning environments, (e.g., formal and informal child care settings; before and after school programs, etc.). The RTL products and services will be made available to implement throughout the state during the one-year agreement cycle.