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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting said Friday it would begin winding down its operations after its funding was eliminated by the Trump administration and Congress.
The CPB is a private nonprofit founded in 1967 that serves as a steward of funding for public media. It provides funds to 1,500 local public radio and television stations as well as PBS and NPR. It employs about 100 people.
President Trump signed an executive order in May instructing the organization to cease federal funding for PBS and NPR. In June, the House approved a White House request to claw back $1.1 billion in already appointed federal funds from the CPB. The Senate Appropriations Committee’s 2026 appropriations bill eliminated funding for the CPB for the first time in over 50 years. More
I assume it’s up to the individual states to decide what to do with their NPR and PBS stations. – Dr. Tar
They are not even worth the Headstone to mark their grave.
“The CPB is a private nonprofit founded in 1967”
But tax payers fund it. Oh, OK. That can’t get more whacked. So in other words they couldn’t survive on their own as a PRIVATE NON PROFIT. Is it just me? WTF?
good riddance,,,, don’t let the door hit you in the (fat) ass. I have been waiting for this for many years,,,, lying snobs and whores.
They cut their own throats by willingly shilling for the DNC, so off to the trash heap they go.
This is not to say that they have not provided some pretty remarkable shows over the years. Ken Burn’s The Civil War (and his other documentaries on Baseball, Jazz, and Mark Twain), Masterpiece Theater, The American Experience, Downton Abbey, All Creatures, Sherlock, Poldark, and their multi-episode series on the great museums of the world, this stuff I will miss.
It also begs the question; why aren’t all the wealthy libs like Bezos, Cook, and Soros ponying up the funds the government took away? This could go a long way in demonstrating their virtue and magnanimity to the world.
Don’t let the door hit you in the ass.
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Bro, I believe those shows you mentioned are on PBS, Not NPR. But I get it and a great point because I’ve enjoyed the hell out of those productions myself. Progressive Libtards are all about the destruction of anything good. They make me sick.
It’s been on a death watch for 7 months. Finally it bites the dust. The world looks much better today.
But, but they argued that the government funding was an inconsequential amount of money. Gee, they must have been trying to mislead everyone. Imagine that!
Yet another, what are they called, non government organization getting government money to do the left’s dirty work without any oversight. Can it just be called money laundering at this point?
NPR and PBS, CPB as mama. All communistic since I came yo the age of reason. Unabashed anti Americanism in an unctuous prose level sing song voice, a guardian speaking to a half wit ward she cares about. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
The communists scored big with public broadcasting. The GOPe sold us out once again by letting it rot the brains of our young. If Trump wasn’t elected the scum of the GOPe would be selling us out yet again.
Yes, Downton Abbey, the far-flung, English countryside berg, where, apparently, there lived a disproportional population of homosexual men who had their own underground nightclub. The character of the ambitious Thomas Barrow was interesting and sympathetic enough without subjecting us all to a British Brokeback Mountain.
That’s my Abby!
Rich is a big fan of the PBS BBC ‘subtle’ cockagoblin humour.
Ken Burns is a state-funded propagandist too.
ken burns can **** **** & swallow
along with bob costas & al michaels
c**** pushing bullshit, fkoff
Most of the good shows aren’t produced by PBS, they’re bought from the Brits and others.
I listened to NPR and the ads say President Trump took away their funding. But it was an act of Congress.
Maybe The Corporation for Public Broadcasting should go the porn route.
By simply removing the “L” it would be the easiest re-branding ever!
Do the UN next please!
ABOUT BLOODY TIME!!!!
The CPB was specifically created by congress to distribute funds to “non-profit” broadcasters. Those “nonprofits” at one time used telethons for pledge drives to fund a significant portion of their funding. Over time the CPB funding became a significant portion of those broadcasters funding. That of course created a lot of CPB interference with them. Same thing as with the Department of Education interference with education in States.
Those non-profit broadcasters can now go back to independence.
But I thought only 4% of their funding was from you and me, by force.
The only thing I worry about is if Nebraska Public Media will still be able to broadcast the Nebraska volleyball games. They truly are the best in the business at it. They put ESPN to shame.
fuck them all in the ass with dynamite.
Mitt Romney 2012;
“You might say, ‘I like the National Endowment for the Arts.’ I do. I like PBS. We subsidize PBS. Look, I’m going to stop that. I’m going to say, ‘PBS is going to have to have advertisements,'” Romney told a crowd at a deli in the Eastern Iowa town. “We’re not going to kill Big Bird, but Big Bird’s going to have to have advertisements, all right? And we’re going to have endowments for the arts and humanities but they’re going to be paid for by private charity not by taxpayers – or by borrowers.”
They could’ve survived had they not made the conscious decision to become the Corporation for Democrat Broadcasting. The lion’s share of actual taxpayers have zero interest in funding that. Plus, it’s obviously illegal.