Mr Powell has promised Congress bigger fines and tougher enforcement, including revoking public-broadcasting licences of repeat offenders.
Before returning to office, he was taped on the orders of prosecutors in Naples as he lobbied an executive of Italy's public-broadcasting service, RAI, on behalf of some actresses.
The agency's deregulation in June 2003 of America's media-ownership rules (which limit the freedom of firms with public-broadcasting licences to buy other media companies) got partially reversed by Congress (in December 2003), and then put on ice altogether by the courts (in June 2004).
In exchange it would renew its commitment to public-service broadcasting, which has slipped somewhat in recent years.
But Ofcom's boss, Ed Richards, argues that if you believe in public-service broadcasting you have to believe in making it free for everyone.
Andy Duncan, its new chief executive, says the situation needs addressing now, not in five years' time as the media regulator, Ofcom, said in a review of public-service broadcasting in September.
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television network founded in 1969.
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Broadcasting - commercial and public - is regulated by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.
Anna Polakova, who heads Romani-language public broadcasting in Prague, says the claims are absurd.
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Sesame Workshop, the non-profit educational organization that produces Sesame Street, is a completely separate company from the non-profit Public Broadcasting System (PBS).
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Miss Cooney asked Mr Stone to write a pilot script for something called the Children's Television Workshop, which she had recently helped to set up and was designed to go out on the state-subsidised Public Broadcasting Service.
Most of the health care funding would be contained in the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill, which funds a lot of the programs that get the most use, like public schools, low-income heating assistance, unemployment insurance, job training, and public broadcasting, so it would be a very high-stakes game.
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He conceived a radical alternative: an online newspaper, Philipstown.info, on the community-supported model of public broadcasting.
Nor does the law prevent someone from prospering from the tax-exempt specialty of public broadcasting.
From an alternative perspective, I mean, could the case be made that since only 2 percent of the funding comes from the federal government that could be a long-term benefit for public broadcasting to cut the purse strings from political pressure?
The show made money with spin-offs, films, books, dolls and foreign rights, bringing much-needed cash into the Public Broadcasting Service whose subsidy is always under threat from Congress.
Last year, Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger - the top civil judge in England and Wales - said broadcasting trials could increase public confidence in the justice system, but warned that judges must have "full rights of veto" over what could be shown.
Norwegian public TV is broadcasting a programme showing a crackling fireplace - for 12 hours.
The same holds for another meat-eater in a region of vegetarians: the Public Broadcasting Service.
It took the form of a 52-minute documentary I helped produce for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's "America at a Crossroads" series.
The host of its non-governmental but government-financed entities, such as Planned Parenthood and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, argue for government funding by stating, correctly, that they are pursuing the public interest as government itself defines it.
The Public Broadcasting Service got geek this week, debuting NerdTV, a downloadable, Web-only TV series that features interviews with a wide array of technology inventors and executives.
Last week, I reported that a film about what was happening to courageous anti-Islamist Muslims in the U.S., Canada and Western Europe was being suppressed by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
But we believe that -- or rather, we do not support calls to eliminate funding for National Public Radio and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as is evidenced by our budget.
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