News

After Trump’s Cuts, ‘Crippled’ NPR and PBS Stations Must Transform

Radio and television stations, facing enormous budget holes, are pleading with NPR and PBS to lower their fees as they ...
Yahoo1mon

Local public radio, television stations vow to combat cuts: ‘Defunded but not defeated’

Three weeks after historic Congressional cuts left public media giants like the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio without federal funding, Tennessee’s PBS and NPR leaders gave a ...

Congress cut $1.1 billion in funding for PBS and NPR. Here's how struggling stations are coping

When Congress decided this summer​ to eliminate $1.1 billion allocated to public broadcasting​​, it left some 330 PBS and 246 ...
Yahoo1mon

PBS stations in Texas face deep funding cuts, push for local support

Public broadcasting leaders from across Texas convened in Amarillo this week to confront a growing challenge: how to continue serving millions of Texans through educational, cultural and local ...
WPXI5d

PBS, NPR stations struggle with Trump-fueled government funding cuts

NEW YORK — (AP) — Coping with a sudden loss in federal funding, PBS affiliate KSPS in Spokane, Washington, faced a surprise extra hurdle. Many of its contributing members — at one point almost half — ...

Why It Was So Important That the Emmys Honored the Corporation for Public Broadcasting This Year

My first reporting job out of college was for the TV industry trade publication Electronic Media, which sent me to Washington ...

“This is going to be hard”: Texas public radio stations fighting to stay on the air after budget cuts

When Congress passed President Donald Trump’s wish to cut funding to public media radio stations, chaos erupted around the ...
90.5 WESA2d

Penn State to wind down WPSU after board of trustees declines transfer to WHYY

In voting down a proposal to transfer the station to WHYY, the board of trustees expressed concern over a $17 million subsidy ...