Organizational Statements, FCC Licenses for Religious Broadcasters

This page lists statements and information concerning the issue taken from the web sites of various organizations, trade associations, and interest groups involved in the issue. We provide both a link to the main page of the organization concerned as well as a copy of the pages relating to the issue that we found in our searches. Because we want to keep information concerning each of our cases for an archive, we copied their pages during the period of research. Below each statement is the original URL from which we retrieved the information. Note that some of these original URLs may not work because the group has updated or changed its website.

External Links to:

• Association of America's Public Television Stations
• Americans United for Separation of Church and State
• Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting
• Cornerstone Television
• National Association of Broadcasters
• National Education Association
• National Religious Broadcasters
• National PTA
• Paxson Communications
• People for the American Way

External Archive for the Association of America's Public Television Stations, downloaded on 7/17/01:

• No documents found

External Archive for the Americans United for Separation of Church and State, downloaded on 7/17/01:

• Church & State AU Bulletin, March 2000 (http://www.au.org/churchstate/cs3008.htm)
• God's Air Force (http://www.au.org/churchstate/cs4002.htm)
• The "Noncommercial Broadcasting Freedom of Expression Act", H.R. 4201 (http://www.au.org/relbrct-alert.htm)
• Church & State AU Bulletin, July/August 2000 (http://www.au.org/churchstate/cs7009.htm)
• U.S. Senate Prepared to Approve 'Religious Pork' for Religious Broadcasters (http://www.au.org/press/pr101900.htm)
• Church & State AU Bulletin, December 2000 (http://www.au.org/churchstate/cs12007.htm)
• Religious Broadcasting (http://www.au.org/relbrct-leg.htm)

External Archive for the Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting, downloaded on 7/17/01:

• Sen. McCain Muscles FCC to Approve Deal (http://www.cipbonline.org/press03.htm)
• Coalition Opposes Religious Right Assault On Educational TV Standards (http://www.cipbonline.org/press05.htm)
• Media Activist Says A Major Media Scandal Lurks Behind The Recent McCain-FCC Campaign-Finance Revelations (http://www.cipbonline.org/cipbnewsfeb3ds.htm)
• FCC Withdraws Noncommercial TV 'Guidelines' (http://www.cipbonline.org/cipbnewsfeb4.htm)
• Coalition Defends Educational TV From Right-Wing Takeover (http://www.cipbonline.org/press06.htm)
• Congress Mulls Religious-Broadcasting Bills (http://www.cipbonline.org/cipbnewsApril13.htm)
• Will Senate Loosen Definition of 'Educational' Channels? (http://www.cipbonline.org/cipbnewsJuly3.htm)

External Archive for Cornerstone Television, downloaded on 7/18/01:

• No documents found

External Archive for the National Association of Broadcasters, downloaded on 7/18/01:

• No documents found

External Archive for the National Education Association, downloaded on 7/18/01:

• No documents found

External Archive for the National Religious Broadcasters, downloaded on 7/18/01:

• Urgent Memorandum (http://www.nrb.org/CornerstoneMemo.htm)
• TO: NRB Members (http://www.nrb.org/CornerstoneMemo2.htm)
• NRB Opposes FCC Noncommercial Proposals (http://www.nrb.org/Press%20Archives/NRB%20OPPOSES%20FCC%20NONCOMMERCIAL%20PROPOSALS.htm)
• FCC Delivers Dangerous Decision on Religious Programming (http://www.nrb.org/Press%20Archives/FCC%20DELIVERS%20DANGEROUS%20DECISION%20ON%20RELIGIOUS%20PROGRAMMING.htm)
• NRB Asks Congress to Protect Religious Expression (http://www.nrb.org/Press%20Archives/NRB%20ASKS%20CONGRESS%20TO%20PROTECT%20RELIGIOUS%20EXPRESSION.htm)
• NRB Declares Victory in FCC Reversal (http://www.nrb.org/Press%20Archives/NRB%20DECLARES%20VICTORY%20IN%20FCC%20REVERSAL.htm)
• Under Fire, FCC Reverses Religious Broadcasting Ruling (http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewReligion.asp?Page=/Religion/archive/REL20000128c.html)
• NRB Testifies to Congress on Cornerstone Decision (http://www.nrb.org/Press%20Archives/NRB%20TESTIFIES%20TO%20CONGRESS.htm)
• House to Vote on Bill Protecting Religious Broadcasters From FCC (http://www.nrb.org/Press%20Archives/HOUSE%20TO%20VOTE%20ON%20HR%204201.htm)
• Congress Acts to Protect Religious Speech (http://www.nrb.org/Press%20Archives/CONGRESS%20ACTS%20TO%20PROTECT%20RELIGIOUS%20SPEECH.htm)

External Archive for the National PTA, downloaded on 7/18/01:

• No documents found

External Archive for Paxson Communications, downloaded on 7/18/01:

• No documents found

External Archive for the People for the American Way, downloaded on 7/18/01:

• Right Wing Watch Online (http://www.pfaw.org/issues/right/rwwo/rwwo.000605.shtml)