What's Inside: OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING KLCC FM, EUGENE LATEST NEWS REFERENCE LIBRARY YOUR INPUT FOPB FORUM RELATED SITES PRODUCERS NETWORK JOIN FOPB Public television can deepen a sense of community in local life. It should provide a voice for groups in the community that may otherwise be unheard It was designed to provide an opportunity for experimentation and innovation - an outlet for alternative viewpoints and perspectives. Reduced funding for public broadcasting and several ill-advised policy changes have commercialized and centralized this precious resource. Let's Oregonize Public Broadcasting How to contact us: Friends of Public Broadcasting PO Box 5031 Eugene, OR 97405   Phone: 541-685-9517   e-mail: fopb@efn.org

This site is a forum for media action FOPB was created to provide a statewide forum and advocacy for the public's interest in broadcasting. This site is for individuals, groups and communities to exchange information, opinion, research and commentary, to coordinate action and to connect activists all over the state. Join FOPB! or Join Forum! A major issue is the lack of local programming and local production on Oregon Public Broadcasting television. Shouldn't this system be working to mirror & connect people across our state? Learn more about these issues and give us your input. Click here to go there. Pick up Oregon Gazette, a community video magazine. See how public television could relate people and cohere communities across the state. See and meet your neighbors. Discover exciting people and cooperative projects you never knew existed. Click Here.   AIR WARS The Fight to Reclaim Public Broadcasting The book by Jerold Starr of CIPB is now available! A detailed account of the Pittsburg public television scandal and how citizen action there and elsewhere is striving to reclaim public television for the public. FOPB offers this 338 page, Beacon Press hardcover edition for your convenience at $25.00 Click here to see our review/order page   Give us your views and comments How well do our public broadcasters fulfill their local programming obligations? What programming or services would better support local communities? How can public broadcasting help connect us across this state? Do you have specific comments on your local public broadcasters? Give us your input   We advocate change to broadcasting policies and practices We carry your views to the public, to state and federal law makers and to public broadcasting organizations where we advocate for favorable changes to their policy and practices. We cooperate with other regional and national organizations for public media reform.   Local Producers' Network This is a database of available videographers and video producers around the state. Programmers or producers may use this data when they are looking for contributors or crew in your regeon. Enter yourself in our database.     This web site is always under revision. Please check back frequently for new information. Last updated 3/10/2001.