Editing Great Society (section)

====Public broadcasting====
{{main|Public Broadcasting Service}}
After the First National Conference on Long-Range Financing of Educational Television Stations in December 1964 called for a study of the role of noncommercial education television in society, the [[Carnegie Corporation]] agreed to finance the work of a 15-member national commission. Its landmark report, ''Public Television: A Program for Action,'' published on January 26, 1967, popularized the phrase "public television" and assisted the legislative campaign for federal aid. The [[Public Broadcasting Act of 1967]], enacted less than 10 months later, chartered the [[Corporation for Public Broadcasting]] as a private, non-profit corporation.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}

The law initiated federal aid through the CPB for the operation, as opposed to the funding of capital facilities, of public broadcasting. The CPB initially collaborated with the pre-existing [[National Educational Television]] system, but in 1969 decided to start the [[Public Broadcasting Service]] (PBS). A public radio study commissioned by the CPB and the [[Ford Foundation]] and conducted from 1968 to 1969 led to the establishment of [[National Public Radio]], a public radio system under the terms of the amended Public Broadcasting Act.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}