Planned for the Worst Funding for public broadcasting has never been guaranteed and in the current political climate, the ...
National Public Radio (NPR) asked a federal judge last week to block the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) from redirecting millions in satellite funding to a newly formed nonprofit organized ...
A new executive order signed by President Donald Trump calls for an immediate halt to federal funding of NPR and PBS, citing what he calls “biased and partisan news coverage.” A statement from the ...
NPR has asked a federal judge in D.C. to block the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from transferring millions in satellite funding to a newly formed nonprofit run by a coalition of public media ...
Public media, including the Public Broadcasting System, finds itself in uncharted waters in the aftermath of the almost complete shutdown of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting on October 1. In ...
Over the past couple of weeks, there have been a bunch of opinions about “NPR taking CPB to court” over interconnection funding. Some are ill-informed (“clinging to distribution”) or disingenuous (the ...
NPR alleges that CPB unlawfully yanked away a planned three-year contract worth $36 million in the face of intense pressure ...
Why does the Executive Order matter to stations? Doesn't the order only talk about NPR and PBS? The Executive Order instructs that no federal funding go directly or indirectly to PBS or NPR. As long ...
Some -- if not many -- of PBS's approximately 350 local station affiliates operate on a shoestring, so for them, losing CPB's vital source of funding might mean the difference between life and death.