Nevada Public Broadcasting Stations (PBS) Grant

The Nevada Public Broadcasting Stations Grant, funded by the State of Nevada Department of Education, supports nonprofit TV and radio stations in delivering quality educational and cultural programming statewide. This initiative ensures that both rural and urban communities benefit from diverse programming, fulfilling the cultural and informational needs of Nevada's residents. The funding formula allocates grants to primary and secondary stations, promoting a balanced distribution of resources across various media formats.

The Public Broadcasting Services Grant provides funding for nonprofit TV districts and/or Radio districts to provide programming to serve the educational, informational, and cultural needs across the state of Nevada. Sub-grantees will provide high quality programming to reach the most rural and most urban of communities.
Funding Information
This grant utilizes the following funding categories as part of a funding formula.
Public Broadcasting Stations: Primary and Secondary
Primary stations that are full-service television or radio stations that meet the qualifications for Community Service Grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; five full-time staff, professionally equipped production facilities, local production and origination, etc.Secondary stations are a station which repeats the signal from a primary station, has production facilities and produces some local programming, and is necessary to achieve statewide coverage. These stations exclusively repeat the signal from a primary station or network and have sufficient reception and transmission equipment to transmit the repeated signal to its designated coverage area.
Funding Formula
Sums appropriated by the State of Nevada through the Department of Education are to be distributed as follows:
TV/Radio SplitA grant pool of 55% of the appropriation shall be designated for the exclusive use of qualified primary and secondary television stations.A grant pool of 45% of the appropriation shall be designated for the exclusive use of qualified primary and secondary radio stations.Radio Base/Incentive Split20% of the radio pool will be set aside for base grants that will be evenly divided among all qualified primary and secondary radio stations.80% of the radio pool will be set aside for incentive grants. Distribution of incentive grants will be made to primary stations only based upon each station’s certified statement of non‐tax-based revenue for the most recent preceding fiscal year. Capital and endowment revenue are excluded. The amount distributed to each station must represent that portion, expressed as a percentage, which each station’s non‐tax-based revenue represents in proportion to the total of all non‐tax based revenue by all eligible primary stations within the grant pool.Television Base/Primary Split20% of the television pool will be set aside for base grants that will be evenly divided among all qualified primary and secondary television stations.80% of the television pool will be set aside for incentive grants. Distribution of incentive grants will be split evenly among all qualified primary stations only.