Solely To Further A Religious National Public Radio

This act was signed into law by President lyndon B Johnson and established the corporation for Public broadcasting which also created the Public broadcasting service in addition to NPR A CPB organizing committee under John Witherspoon first created a Board of Directors chaired by Bernard Mayes this board NPR produces and distributes news and cultural programming.


Member stations are required to be noncommercial or educational radio stations have at least five full time professional employees operate for at least 18 hours per day and not be designed solely to further a religious philosophy or be used for classroom programming Each member station receives one vote at the annual NPR board meetings exercised by its designated Authorized Station Representative.


NPR does not carry traditional commercials but has advertising in the form of brief statements from major donors such as allstate merck and Archer daniels midland these statements are called underwriting spots not commercials and unlike commercials are governed by FCC restrictions they cannot advocate a product or contain any call to action.