In early July, at the behest of President Donald Trump, Congress approved a $9 billion rescission package that canceled $1.1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting. NPR CEO Katherine Maher ...
The company is among the first casualties of a vote to strip roughly $500 million in federal funding from NPR, PBS and local stations across the country. By Benjamin Mullin The Corporation for Public ...
Washington — The Senate is expected to vote next week on a request from the White House to claw back funding for international aid and public broadcasting. But the funding for rural radio and ...
Section 1. Purpose. National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) receive taxpayer funds through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Unlike in 1967, when the CPB was ...
President Trump took yet another step Tuesday to place NPR and PBS at the center of his broader clash with major cultural institutions, formally asking Congress to take back the $1.1 billion it has ...
Broadcasters keep popping up in the news. Broadcasting — distributing radio and television content for public audiences — has been around for a century, but is facing a uniquely challenging landscape ...
It finally happened: After decades of putting on a show of threatening to pull public broadcasting's federal funds, the Republican Party changed its mindset and decided to actually do it. The ...
The Corp. for Public Broadcasting said Friday it was shutting down, a week after President Trump signed legislation stripping its funding. The move startled some public radio and television station ...
The US Senate voted to rescind two years’ worth of funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), delivering a blow to public radio and television stations around the country. The CPB is ...
Radio and television stations, facing enormous budget holes, are pleading with NPR and PBS to lower their fees as they examine whether to drop national programming altogether. Radio and television ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a cornerstone of American culture for three generations, announced Friday it would take steps toward its own closure after being defunded by ...