Public Service Media
Securing the Future of Noncommercial Expression

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What's at Stake?

What place will there be for public service communications in the fragmented media of the digital age?

• New outlets, new opportunities
  Those interested in public service communications must use different outlets to reach a fragmented audience.

• Building coalitions
  To survive, public service media are building coalitions with schools, libraries, independent producers, and private corporations.

• Securing finance
  Establishing a financial base independent of annual congressional appropriations could be the first step in securing the future of public service media.

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Who Owns the Airwaves?

The Benton Foundation'sThe Debate on the Future of Public Television

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The Benton Foundation plans to issue regular updates on universal service
and other public interest issues related to the new Telecommunications Act
(www.benton.org).