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GAO Reports Federal Funding Cuts Could Reduce Public Television's Children's Programming
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U.S. Newswire
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February 21, 2007
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To: FAMILY EDITORS
Contact: Tania Panczyk-Collins of the Association of Public
Television Stations, +1-202-654-4222, tpanczyk@apts.org
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- If federal funding
were reduced by the twenty-five percent recently proposed by The Bush
Administration, Public Television stations would need to reduce their
level of service, or some would completely shut down their
operations, a GAO study released this week reported.
The report comes just weeks after President Bush proposed slashing
federal funding for public broadcasting, including the Corporation of
Public Broadcasting (CPB), by roughly $145 million in his FY 2008
budget submission to Congress.
The GAO ...