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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND
RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR
FISCAL YEAR 2019
U.S. SENATE,
SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS,
Washington, DC.
[CLERK'S NOTE.-The subcommittee was unable to hold hearings
on departmental and nondepartmental witnesses. The statements
and letters of those submitting written testimony are as follows:]
DEPARTMENTAL WITNESSES
PREPARED STATEMENT OF THE AMERICA'S PUBLIC TELEVISION STATIONS AND THE
PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE
On behalf of America's 170 public television licensees, we appreciate the oppor-
tunity to submit testimony for the record on the importance of Federal funding for
local public television stations and PBS. We urge the Subcommittee to support fund-
ing of at least $455 million in 2-year advance funding for the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting (CPB) in fiscal year 2021, $20 million for the Public Television Inter-
connection System in fiscal year 2019 and $30 million for the Ready To Learn pro-
gram at the Department of Education in Fiscal Year 2019.
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING: AT LEAST $455 MILLION (FISCAL YEAR 2021),
2-YEAR ADVANCE FUNDED
Local stations and PBS are committed to serving the public good in education,
public safety, civic leadership, and other essential areas of society. Federal funding
for CPB makes these services available to all Americans, including those in rural
and underserved areas, and this funding enjoys the overwhelming support of the
American people.
In a January 2017 bipartisan Hart Research Associates/American Viewpoint poll,
76 percent of American voters, including majorities of Republicans, Independents,
and Democrats, support Federal funding for public television and want it main-
tained at current levels or increased. Over 70 percent of Federal funding for CPB
goes directly to local stations, creating a successful public-private partnership of lo-
cally-controlled, broadly trusted, highly valued community servants.
Education
Local public television stations are America's largest classroom, meeting their
communities' lifelong learning needs by providing the highest quality educational
content and resources on multiple media platforms and in-person. Public television's
exceptional content is available to nearly every household in America and has
helped more than 90 million pre-school age children get ready to learn and succeed
in school.
PBS, in partnership with local public television stations, has created PBS
LearningMedia, an online portal where almost 2 million K-12 educators and users
employ more than 100,000 standards-based, curriculum-aligned interactive digital
learning objects created from public television content, as well as material from the
Library of Congress, National Archives and other high-quality sources.
Overall, PBS LearningMedia helps teach an estimated 40 million students, includ-
ing 33,000 homeschoolers, every day. Public television stations also provide distance
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