Rest In Peace, PBS & NPR. :(

[bobabode]

"The nonprofit charged by Congress with allocating funds to NPR, PBS and other US public radio and television stations announced is dissolving after massive federal funding cuts under Donald Trump.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced on Monday that its board of directors had voted to dissolve the organization after nearly 60 years in operation.

Patricia Harrison, president and CEO of CPB, said in a statement Monday that the organization’s board of directors voted to dissolve the organization as it “faced a profound responsibility”.

She added: “CPB’s final act would be to protect the integrity of the public media system and the democratic values by dissolving, rather than allowing the organization to remain defunded and vulnerable to additional attack.”

The organization was created by the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, which built the organization to support NPR and PBS, along with 1,500 locally owned and operated public media stations. The organization was tasked with distributing $500m worth of funding annually to NPR, PBS and its network of local broadcast stations."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/co...4f58d4fc&ei=54

The best money we ever spent was for Public TV.

Welcome to the Idiocracy, dumbasses! smh

[Chicks]

Ken Burns schools a smarmy libertarian on the importance of government funding of PBS.

https://youtu.be/42uAvbPvsWU?si=vB-qnzdBa3mBHlP5

[Oerets]

PBS has moved onto for one Prime TV channels with many offering of content. So this will help fund and expose more to them.
As a sustaining member for many years only hope that the major benefactors keep donating.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by bobabode

"The nonprofit charged by Congress with allocating funds to NPR, PBS and other US public radio and television stations announced is dissolving after massive federal funding cuts under Donald Trump.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced on Monday that its board of directors had voted to dissolve the organization after nearly 60 years in operation.

Patricia Harrison, president and CEO of CPB, said in a statement Monday that the organization’s board of directors voted to dissolve the organization as it “faced a profound responsibility”.

She added: “CPB’s final act would be to protect the integrity of the public media system and the democratic values by dissolving, rather than allowing the organization to remain defunded and vulnerable to additional attack.”

The organization was created by the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, which built the organization to support NPR and PBS, along with 1,500 locally owned and operated public media stations. The organization was tasked with distributing $500m worth of funding annually to NPR, PBS and its network of local broadcast stations."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/co...4f58d4fc&ei=54

The best money we ever spent was for Public TV.

Welcome to the Idiocracy, dumbasses! smh

I assume they decided there was no sense in trying to fund raise, in effective competition with the stations and producers, just to continue to pay themselves their salaries.

[bobabode]

'Judge permanently blocks Trump order ending NPR, PBS funding'

"A district court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday permanently blocked President Trump’s executive order to halt funding to National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcast Service (PBS).

In a lengthy ruling, U.S. District Judge Randolph D. Moss moved to prohibit the enforcement of Executive Order 14290. The president signed this order in May, and it directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to cease paying out allocated federal funding to NPR and PBS." The Hill

https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...cked/?tbref=hp

Suck it, Luddites.

[GChief]

Our local "PBS/NPR" only lost about 9% of their annual budget. They are still rolling along strong with donations making up the short fall.

Glad the judge "stopped" it, hopefully it will hold.

[RickeyM]

That's what he gets for treating executive orders like royal decrees from the almighty emperor.