About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 71. Chapters: Alabama Public Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Boise State Public Radio, Chicago Public Media, Colorado Public Radio, Commonwealth Public Broadcasting Corporation, Connecticut Public Broadcasting, Connecticut Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Hawaii Public Radio, High Plains Public Radio, Interlochen Public Radio, Iowa Public Radio, Jefferson Public Radio, Kentucky Public Radio, KUNM, KUSC, Maine Public Broadcasting Network, Michigan Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Montana Public Radio, Nebraska Educational Telecommunications, Nevada Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, New Jersey Network, New Jersey Public Radio, Northern Public Radio, Northstate Public Radio, Northwest Public Radio, North Carolina Public Radio, North Country Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Prairie Public Radio, Radio IQ, Red River Radio, Rhode Island's NPR, South Carolina Educational Television, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Texas Public Radio, Troy University Public Radio, Valley Public Radio, Vermont Public Radio, WAMC, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WFSU-FM, WHYY-FM, Wisconsin Public Radio, WKU Public Radio, WMRA, WNYC, WRTI, WRVO, WVTF, WXXI Public Broadcasting Council, Wyoming Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio. Excerpt: ) Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) is the public broadcasting radio and television state network in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is operated by the Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission. GPB operates all of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR) stations in Georgia, except WPBA, WABE, and WCLK in Atlanta, WFSL-FM in Thomasville (which relays WFSQ-FM from FSU radio in Tallahassee, Florida), and WTJB-FM in Columbus (which relays Troy University Public Radio from WTSU-FM in Troy, Alabama). In 1960, the University of Georgia began WGTV, Georgia's second public television station (after WETV, now WPBA). From 1960 to 1964, in a separate initiative, the Georgia Board of Education started up four educational television stations across the state, aimed at in-school instruction. In 1965, the university and the board merged their efforts as Georgia Educational Television (GETV). It became Georgia Public Television (GPTV) in 1983, a year after the state legislature transferred authority for the stations to the Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission, the oversight board for GPB. In 1984, the GPTC entered public radio for the first time, starting stations in Macon and Columbus. These formed the nuclei of Peach State Public Radio, renamed Georgia Public Radio in 2001. During the 1980s and 1990s, stations that had been operated by other educational institutions and community groups became affiliated with the network. In 1995, the GPTC began using "Georgia Public Broadcasting" as its corporate name. In early 2004, GPTV and Georgia Public Radio officially became known as Georgia Public Broadcasting, which now serves as an umbrella title for all GPB operations. Its headquarters and primary radio and television production facility is on Fourteenth Street in Midtown Atlanta, just west of the Downtown Connector in the Home Park neighborhood, north of Georgia Tech and south of Atlantic Station. This facility caused some controversy when, beca
