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Corporation for Public Broadcasting formally dissolves after loss of federal funding
« on: January 05, 2026, 05:31:13 pm »
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is formally dissolving several months after its federal funding was rescinded, but with a plea for public media to continue.

The CPB announced Monday that its board had voted to dissolve the corporation after 58 years. The CPB had been winding down its operations since August, weeks after Congress passed a Trump administration-backed budget bill that rescinded $1.1 billion in previously approved federal funding.

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Patricia Harrison, president and CEO of the CPB, said in a pointed statement that dissolving the corporation was the best option to help preserve public media in the United States: "For more than half a century, CPB existed to ensure that all Americans - regardless of geography, income, or background - had access to trusted news, educational programming, and local storytelling," she said. "When the administration and Congress rescinded federal funding, our board faced a profound responsibility: CPB's final act would be to protect the integrity of the public media system and the democratic values [it embodies] by dissolving, rather than allowing the organization to remain defunded and vulnerable to additional attacks."

Harrison added, "Public media remains essential to a healthy democracy. Our hope is that future leaders and generations will recognize its value, defend its independence, and continue the work of ensuring that trustworthy, educational, and community-centered media remains accessible to all Americans."

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Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting formally dissolves after loss of federal funding
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2026, 05:43:29 pm »
That's a shame...
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Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting formally dissolves after loss of federal funding
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2026, 05:48:21 pm »
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Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting formally dissolves after loss of federal funding
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2026, 06:00:05 pm »
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Public media remains essential to a healthy democracy.

Highly dubious proposition.  Prove it.
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Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting formally dissolves after loss of federal funding
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2026, 06:14:47 pm »
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Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting formally dissolves after loss of federal funding
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2026, 06:16:36 pm »
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Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting formally dissolves after loss of federal funding
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2026, 08:03:41 am »
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting Is Officially Dissolved — Let's Salt the Earth Where It Stood

By Jennifer Oliver O'Connell  | 7:15 AM on January 06, 2026The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com.
     

The 58-year-old non-profit Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is no more. Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) is all of us right now.


For decades, conservatives and Republican lawmakers have advocated for CPB to be stripped of its taxpayer funding for the very reasons Sen. Kennedy outlined in the video: Government should not be paying for Democrat agendas and leftist ideology like the concept of racist preschoolers or Ken Burns latest snockumentary about how horrible the founders really were. But Congress was never unified enough to cross that line. Thanks to the election of President Donald Trump and the 119th Congress under the leadership of Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (LA-04) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), somehow they found the testicular fortitude to cut CPB off the government teat. The hypocritical leftists who claimed funding the CPB was imperative because it was such a vital resource to the country couldn't even be bothered to make up the $1.1 billion deficit left by the rescission of government funding. So, the once vaunted organization that funded PBS, NPR, and certain affiliate stations took its final breath.

Hurry and salt the earth to ensure there is no chance of revival.

https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/01/06/the-corporation-for-public-broadcasting-is-finally-dead-lets-sage-the-ground-where-it-stood-n2197802
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Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting formally dissolves after loss of federal funding
« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2026, 08:07:03 am »
If the earth is salted, the green wing of the democrat party will riot! tiny nuke
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Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting formally dissolves after loss of federal funding
« Reply #8 on: January 07, 2026, 09:33:07 am »
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Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting formally dissolves after loss of federal funding
« Reply #9 on: January 07, 2026, 08:35:00 pm »
I voted for this...
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Re: Corporation for Public Broadcasting formally dissolves after loss of federal funding
« Reply #10 on: January 07, 2026, 08:48:34 pm »
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