Online Soap Opera Cleans Up with Stimulus Broadband Cash ; Nearly $1m in Federal Funds for 'Diary of a Single Mom'
The Washington Times › December 02, 2011
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You may not have seen the show "Diary of a Single Mom" co- starring Billy Dee Williams, but your tax dollars helped pay for it.
Through the federal economic stimulus program, a company owned by actor-director Robert Townsend was paid more than $230,000 to produce and direct the Web-based show, records show. Other production costs on the show paid to different vendors total more than $700,000.See the full content of this document
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Online Soap Opera Cleans Up with Stimulus Broadband Cash ; Nearly $1m in Federal Funds for 'Diary of a Single Mom'
The money came through an award by the Department of Commerce to One Economy Corp. for more than $28 million last year to help boost broadband Internet service in underserved areas across the country.
One Economy is using more than $1.5 million of that money to create programming such as "Diary of a Single Mom," which the ...See the full content of this document
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