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  • initialism US Corporation for Public Broadcasting

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  • Elsewhere in snooping around, more echoes of the US atty scandal — seems the evidence of political tampering also came down to emails between Tomlinson and Rove, never produced in this case because CPB is technically a private concern.

    Scripting News for 4/25/2007 « Scripting News Annex 2007

  • The $9 million investment in CPB in 1967 (about $47 million in today’s dollars) has grown to over $300 million in annual funding today.

    Boing Boing: April 9, 2006 - April 15, 2006 Archives 2006

  • The CPB is designed to provide a buffer between independent public broadcast networks and partisan politics.

    Think Progress » Bush Nominates National Review Writer To Public Broadcasting Board 2006

  • Mr. Tomlinson has maintained that his goal at CPB is to strengthen public broadcasting by restoring “balance” and stamping out “liberal bias.”

    mjh's blog — 2005 — June 2005

  • By the inspector-general’s logic, ideological bias in CPB funding is in line with the law’s requirement of nonpartisanship, while correcting that bias is “political interference”.

    Television 2009

  • Figures released Wednesday by the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, also known as the CPB, showed trade volumes fell 2.5% from March, having risen by 1.1% in that month.

    Trade Data Suggest Slowdown Paul Hannon 2011

  • Financial incentives to improve the CPB should be accompanied by stronger firewalls to protect the system's independence from politicians.

    Why Fox News should help fund NPR Steve Coll 2010

  • NPR receives about 2%, or $2.4 million, of its budget from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting CPB, which is federally chartered and funded.

    NPR chief Vivian Schiller ousted amid video scandal 2011

  • Figures released Monday by the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, also known as the CPB, showed trade volumes rose 2.3% from April, having fallen by 2.2% in that month.

    World Trade Picks Up Paul Hannon 2011

  • Figures released by the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis -- also known as the CPB -- Monday showed trade volumes rose 4.8% from November, having risen 1.1% in that month.

    World Trade Recovery Gains Momentum Paul Hannon 2010

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