Sentence examples for public interest programs from inspiring English sources

As New York attorney general, Eliot Spitzer also endorsed the use of cy pres to benefit public interest programs.

He said that good corporate citizenship and support of public interest programs, including education, "provokes a sense of loyalty in employees".

"The spirit of service and the appeal of adventure of working on the hardest problems, I think, appeals to any generation and is dormant there, and the question is, 'How do you bring it to life?' " Public interest programs are learning how to do the asking, he said, and materialism appears to be giving way to a commitment to helping others.

Comcast also said it would "preserve and enrich the output of local news, local public affairs, and other public interest programming" on NBC's stations.

And while Mylan does run various public-interest programs, including one through which it gives free injectors to schools, those programs are also useful to the company's bottom line, since they solidify EpiPen's brand name.

Local affiliates, for their part, will lose much of their remaining bargaining power with national networks that are less interested in promoting local news and public-interest programming.

If that happens, the broadcasters warn, they will lose one of their primary sources of revenue, which will in turn endanger public-interest programming.

Critics of public funds for public broadcasting have long held that educational and other public-interest programming is increasingly available elsewhere, including on cable.

Time was, broadcasters had to regularly reapply and show public-interest programming to earn continuance; now they mail the F.C.C. a postcard every eight years that nobody reads.

Herbert Hoover, then the Secretary of Commerce, fought for a provision requiring some public-interest programming — local news, children's shows, community-based formats — in exchange for a license to use the public airwaves.

What he had hoped for was a return to the Golden Age and a flowering of public-interest programming; what he got, in the long run, were such series as Gilligan's Island and Mister Ed (CBS, 1961 66), a sitcom about a talking horse.