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Houston Public Media Demonstrates Public Safety Datacasting Capabilities To International Association of Fire Chiefs
08/08/18
America’s Public Television Stations (APTS) president and CEO Patrick Butler today commended Houston Public Media for its presentation on public television’s public safety capabilities to the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC): -
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APTS Statement on FCC Filing in Consideration of New Rules for EBS Licenses
08/08/18
America’s Public Television Stations (APTS) today urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to allow Educational Broadband Service (EBS) licenses to expand the reach of their services and apply for additional open EBS spectrum. -
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FCC Expert Panel Commends Public Television’s Public Safety Datacasting Capabilities
07/19/18
America’s Public Television Stations (APTS) president and CEO Patrick Butler issued the following statement today on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Communications, Security Reliability and Interoperability Council's (CRIC) report on the comprehensive re-imagining of emergency alerting. -
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APTS Commends the U.S. House Appropriations Committee for Providing Level Funding for Public Broadcasting
07/11/18
America’s Public Television Stations are grateful to the House Appropriations Committee for providing level funding of $445 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) for Fiscal Year 2021, as well as level funding of $20 million in FY 2019 to support public television’s interconnection and infrastructure needs, and level funding of $27.7 million in FY 2019 for Ready To Learn, a competitive grant program at the Department of Education that supports public television’s essential work -- on-air, online and on-the-ground -- in early childhood education. -
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APTS Commends the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee For Providing Level Funding For Public Broadcasting
06/28/18
America's Public Television Stations (APTS) president and CEO Patrick Butler issued the following statement today on the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee's vote providing level funding of $445 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) for Fiscal Year 2021 and $20 million in FY 2019 for an annual interconnection and infrastructure account. -
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APTS Statement on the FCC’s NPRM on Requirements for Educational and Informational Children’s Programming
06/21/18
America’s Public Television Stations (APTS) president and CEO Patrick Butler issued the following statement today on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to reexamine requirements of television licensees to provide educational and informational children’s programming. -
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APTS Commends the U.S. House Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee for Providing Level Funding for Public Broadcasting
06/15/18
America's Public Television Stations (APTS) president and CEO Patrick Butler issued the following statement today commending the U.S. House Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS-Education) Subcommittee for recommending significant funding for public broadcasting. -
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America’s Public Television Stations Elect Sherrese M. Smith to APTS Board of Trustees
06/06/18
America’s Public Television Stations (APTS) today announced the election of Sherrese M. Smith, a partner at the law firm of Paul Hastings in Washington, D.C., to a three-year term as an at-large trustee on the APTS Board and at-large director on the APTS Action, Inc. Board. -
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APTS Congratulates Ruby Calvert and Laura Ross on their Confirmation to the CPB Board
05/25/18
America’s Public Television Stations (APTS) president and CEO Patrick Butler issued the following statement on the confirmation Ruby Calvert and Laura Ross to the Board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). -
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APTS President and CEO Patrick Butler’s Keynote Address at ATSC Conference Details Public Television’s Embrace of the Next Gen Broadcast Standard
05/24/18
In a keynote address to the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) conference, America’s Public Television Stations (APTS) president and CEO Patrick Butler said public television stations see advances in distance learning, emergency communications and civic leadership among the features of ATSC 3. -
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APTS Statement on the Merger of PBS SoCal and KCET
04/25/18
America's Public Television Stations (APTS) president and CEO Patrick Butler issued the following statement on the announced merger between PBS SoCal and KCET. -
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APTS Commends Senate Commerce Committee For Approving the Nominations of Ruby Calvert and Laura Ross to the CPB Board
04/25/18
America’s Public Television Stations (APTS) president and CEO Patrick Butler issued the following statement on the Senate Commerce Committee approving the nominations of Ruby Calvert and Laura Ross to the Board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). -
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APTS Statement on the Death of Barbara Bush
04/17/18
Patrick Butler, president and chief executive officer of America’s Public Television Stations, made the following statement on the death of Barbara Bush. -
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APTS Commends FCC For Committing Additional Funds To Post-Auction Repacking
04/16/18
America’s Public Television Stations (APTS) president and CEO Patrick Butler issued the following statement today commending the Federal Communications Commission for a substantial increase in the funds allocated for repacking broadcast channels in the aftermath of the spectrum incentive auction. -
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New Research Finds More Than 90 Percent of Americans Want Public Broadcasting to Help Provide Earthquake Early Warnings
04/09/18
New public opinion research finds that the overwhelming majority of Americans want public television to play a role in providing earthquake early warnings.
