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CPB announces $4.4M in grants to support rural radio and TV news services in Wisconsin, Ohio, Arkansas, Kansas, West Virginia, Tennessee, Michigan, and Iowa (Tyler Falk/Current)
https://current.org/2025/12/cpb-awards-4-million-to-expand-rural-reporting/…

CPB awards $4 million to expand rural reporting
Grants will go to public radio and television stations in eight states.

CPB dissolves to prevent Trump from using it as a propaganda machine
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CPB dissolves to prevent Trump from using it as a propaganda machine
CPB dissolves to prevent Trump from using it as a propaganda machine (From a post seen elsewhere) The Corporation for Public Broadcasting officially closed...

RE: https://mastodon.nl/@sonjavan62/115907195588415214
Hier op Mastodon hadden we ook al zitten rekenen. Het CPB moet zich schamen dat organisaties als de Woonbond met uitleg moeten komen over de bizarre beeldvorming die plaatsvond.
Zo gaan we in Nederland niet met elkaar om. Zeker van een dienst die het moet hebben van -betrouwbare cijfers- mag je beter werk verwachten.
(Die vage CBS alinea maakte trouwens juist dat ik op zoek ging naar de cijfers.)

Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M membership cost (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/business/media/arkansa…

Arkansas Public Television Drops PBS
The loss of federal funding forced a difficult decision, the executive director of Arkansas TV said: Cut PBS, or go off the air entirely.

“NPR’s board members were excited in the fall of 2023 when they found Ms. Maher. She had worked for the World Bank and HSBC. As the chief executive of the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, she oversaw a sprawling, complicated community of volunteer editors. And she was prepared.”
https://www.nytimes.com/…

Katherine Maher of NPR Has Come Out on Top Despite Battles With Trump and the CPB
Katherine Maher has taken an unyielding approach to NPR’s biggest battles — which has sometimes put her at odds with her colleagues in public media.

CPB board votes to dissolve the 58-year-old organization following the rescission of all federal funding by Congress at the behest of President Trump (Cameron Coats/Radio Ink)
https://radioink.com/2026/01/05/corporation-for-public-broadcasting…

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Officially Votes to Disband - Radio Ink
After 58 years of service to the American public, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Board of Directors has formally voted to dissolve the organization.

The Public Media Bridge Fund, formed due to CPB cuts, raises $66.5M of its $110M goal and launches disaster recovery and restructuring programs for stations (Austin Fuller/Current)
https://current.org/2026/01/public-media-bridge-fund-announ…

Public Media Bridge Fund announces new emergency and disaster programs
The Public Media Bridge Fund has raised $66.5 million of its $110 million goal so far, according to Program Officer Allie Vanyur.

A profile of NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who has taken an unyielding approach to NPR's biggest battles, causing rifts with the right and her public media allies (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30…

Katherine Maher of NPR Has Come Out on Top Despite Battles With Trump and the CPB
Katherine Maher has taken an unyielding approach to NPR’s biggest battles — which has sometimes put her at odds with her colleagues in public media.