Corporation for PBS and NPR says it’s ending operations after Trump cuts

[rangerrebew]

Corporation for PBS and NPR says it’s ending operations after Trump cuts
Story by Katie Hawkinson • 15h

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it will wind down its operations after the Trump administration and Congress slashed its funding.

The organization funds PBS and NPR, as well as more than 1,500 local TV and radio stations. The “majority of staff positions” will end on September 30, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting said in a statement. A “small transition team” will remain through January 2026 to help close out operations.
 
NPR and PBS receive about half a billion dollars in public funds through the organization, CBS News reports.

“Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations,” Corporation for Public Broadcasting President and CEO Patricia Harrison said in a statement

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/corporation-for-pbs-and-npr-says-it-s-ending-operations-after-trump-cuts/ar-AA1JKi6J?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=688df93576314c2bb05f7587c6eb8ede&ei=98

[Fishrrman]

This is what I voted for...

[mountaineer]

Any need we may have had back in the 1950s for "educational television" has long since been met. We taxpayers no longer need pay for it (except for the commercial networks appearing on our cable bills, perhaps).

[DCPatriot]

BAH!!

All they're doing is ginning up publicity for their "1st Radiothon".

Still going to require commercial advertising, IMO.

[MeganC]

This is what I voted for...

Agreed! It was time to end the leftist propaganda machine. And that's what PBS/NPR was.

[Free Vulcan]

That's a shame.

[roamer_1]

BAH!!

All they're doing is ginning up publicity for their "1st Radiothon".

Still going to require commercial advertising, IMO.

Yeah... They have to find a way to hold on until the Dems get back in power and make it rain... Maybe they'll reduce their footprint for a couple years... Maybe Oprah will write em a check...

But then, maybe they are so used to being unimaginative that they can't figure out how to get some bread in the door... That's what reliance on government brings. 

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Look up sneakypete's posts, he was a huge defender of public broadcasting... never understood that one.

[DCPatriot]

Look up sneakypete's posts, he was a huge defender of public broadcasting... never understood that one.

I love it too!  An oasis of classical music by the Masters all brought to you accompanied by a calm, soothing blood pressure reducing voice.

All without one damned Federal IRS assistance company reducing your $83,000 debt down to $3,500. by just calling an 800 number.
"Our Passion is Helping People With Their Taxes...We've a A+ rating by the Better Business Bureau"!!

Annoying as hell.

Especially, when you realize callers are actually turning themselves in to the IRS themselves....OR, companies and individuals can reap a 10% bounty in $$ from the IRS for any delinquent taxes collected due to information leading to conviction, etc..

[240B]

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it will wind down its operations after the Trump administration and Congress slashed its funding.

This is the corporate/administrative part that managed the government money. Since there is no more government money, there is no need for this office.

All the headlines claiming that NPR and PBS are closing are all misinformation. NPR and PBS are untouched and will continue as always only they will be funded by donations and contributions (or commercials if they go that way).

The only thing that is 'closing' are the affiliated government offices which dealt with government money.

[verga]

Look up sneakypete's posts, he was a huge defender of public broadcasting... never understood that one.

I could be wrong, but I think his position was that they had a right to broadcast the shows they chose to broadcast, he did not necessarily agree with the content. I would occasionally listen to do opposition research.

[roamer_1]

I will defend PBS to some degree... Not all of their programming was bad.

When we first moved up here to Montana, back in '73-'74, there was only one TV station on the antenna. Later on we began to pick up stations from Missoula - I don't know if PBS  had a contract with KPAX, or what, but when we started to receive KPAX Missoula, we also began to receive PBS... So for a while there, two more channels to watch was a very big deal.

Even then, the programming was really liberal, but the kid's shows were pretty benign, and the nature shows were awesome.

Now, I have not watched PBS since I got rid of cable, which has been a decade or so. So my observations may well be in error in this day and age.

I recognize that PBS is a propaganda channel for the liberal left - But not *ALL* of their programming was bad.

[berdie]

I agree, not all of their shows were crappy. Great nature shows and some historical shows were good. I can't say anymore.

[mountaineer]

I love classical music, and the only FM radio source for it in our area is an NPR station. If cutting their taxpayer funding means they can't survive, that's rough but I'll survive. When I lived in St. Louis, I listened to a classical station operated by the Lutheran Church, so it is possible for others to step into the breach, so to speak.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

I love classical music, and the only FM radio source for it in our area is an NPR station. If cutting their taxpayer funding means they can't survive, that's rough but I'll survive. When I lived in St. Louis, I listened to a classical station operated by the Lutheran Church, so it is possible for others to step into the breach, so to speak.

We have 99.5 FM here, it's not NPR but it is a nonprofit. Good station, and yes there is a time and place for that sort of music. Our NPR plays jazz you won't really hear anywhere else. But with the internet these days, this stuff is all findable without it.

[roamer_1]

I love classical music, and the only FM radio source for it in our area is an NPR station. If cutting their taxpayer funding means they can't survive, that's rough but I'll survive. When I lived in St. Louis, I listened to a classical station operated by the Lutheran Church, so it is possible for others to step into the breach, so to speak.

I have a sorta media center hooked up... I have a pooter hooked to a TV, so the TV is just a big, dumb monitor. That's how I watch everything.

But to your point, sound is plumbed from the pooter to the tv via HDMI... But then the sound is plumbed from the TV to an old school stereo amplifier AUX channel and out to speakers... Real stereo home speakers.

Now, my motive might be different than yours - I need to FEEEEEL the music, something that earphones totally don't do. not at all.

So I can 'pump up the volume' old school, and get the whole place rockin if I want to. That ambient thump is way mo bedda than headphones.

And the way it is hooked up, literally anything can be streamed direct from the internet (including radio,  btw). Almost literally anything you might want to listen to, of any genre,  of any age... It's all there.

And don't think my redneck ass has never tuned into some Beethoven or Pachebel or the like a time or two...

As an aside, I do also have good, bluetooth enabled headphones that are paired to that pooter... so I can pump the sound that way too, instead... But that is more for movies. 

[mountaineer]

A liberal confesses: PBS and NPR started my career… but I’m so glad they got defunded

https://twitter.com/HistoryBoutique/status/1953911995750576343

Of course, after posting this video, her fellow TV/film/liberal "friends" called her a fascist. Her husband, @matt_vanswol, tweeted:
I'm sitting next to Erin while she's received message after message of people she's worked with in Hollywood, friends, and co-workers calling her a fascist for this. She's likely torched her career in film, just to tell the truth.

[Smokin Joe]

A liberal confesses: PBS and NPR started my career… but I’m so glad they got defunded

https://twitter.com/HistoryBoutique/status/1953911995750576343

Of course, after posting this video, her fellow TV/film/liberal "friends" called her a fascist. Her husband, @matt_vanswol, tweeted:
I'm sitting next to Erin while she's received message after message of people she's worked with in Hollywood, friends, and co-workers calling her a fascist for this. She's likely torched her career in film, just to tell the truth.

What? respond to?...Be accountable to the very hoi palloi they have been looking down their noses at for decades?

Egad!

Kudos to her for having the intestinal fortitude to recognize the gap between PBS and NPR and those who have been forced to fund it. She sees this as an opportunity to improve both, and TPTB want nothing to do with that!

[Cyber Liberty]

BAH!!

All they're doing is ginning up publicity for their "1st Radiothon".

Still going to require commercial advertising, IMO.

Which they are already doing in a different form than their commercial cousins.

[DCPatriot]

Which they are already doing in a different form than their commercial cousins.

LOL!  You're right!

Guess, my main point is that 24/7 non-commercial format, together with the perfectly modulated...British accented dictation...it's the entire appeal of NPR and PBS.

At least when it pertains to Classical Music formats.

Segments such as "All Things Considered"...yeah, the irony doesn't escape me.   

[Cyber Liberty]

LOL!  You're right!

Guess, my main point is that 24/7 non-commercial format, together with the perfectly modulated...British accented dictation...it's the entire appeal of NPR and PBS.

At least when it pertains to Classical Music formats.

Segments such as "All Things Considered"...yeah, the irony doesn't escape me.   

I always called it "Some Things Considered."

[MeganC]

Not all of their programming was bad.

I disagree.

Sesame Street was exposed in depth by Ben Shapiro and even The Atlantic wrote about Shapiro's work:

But Sesame Street, which targets us when we're young, is worst of all. Shapiro quotes Mike Dann, one of the show's founding executives, saying it "was not made for the sophisticated or the middle class." Early episodes featured the character Grover breaking bread with a hippie. Oscar, who lived in a rubbish bin, was supposed to address "conflicts arising from racial and ethnic diversity." Dann also told Shapiro he used the program in the wake of 9/11 to highlight how there were peaceful alternatives to war. Shameful! Criminal, even! In fairness to Shapiro, however, Sesame Street was criticized in the past for having an anti-right agenda in 2009, when it mockingly referred to America’s Fox News channel as "Pox News."
"Sesame Street tried to tackle divorce, tackled 'peaceful conflict resolution' in the aftermath of 9/11, and had [gay actor] Neil Patrick Harris on the show playing the subtly-named 'fairy shoeperson'," writes Shapiro. And since 95 percent of Americans have watched the show by the time they're three years old, well, the levels of brainwashing must be astronomical!

"Television isn't just about entertainment," said Shapiro. "It's an attempt to convince Americans that the social, economic, and foreign policy shaped by leftism is morally righteous." And, he added to the Independent, "It's not paranoid to speak the truth."


Mr. Roger's Neighborhood was perniciously anti-masculine and taught a generation of young men that being a p*ussy was righteous.

The show pushed pacifist themes, it pushed socialist themes, it pushed radical environmentalism, the show even argued for non-violence in the aftermath of 9/11. Three thousand Americans died and Fred Rogers wanted us to bend over and take it. 

No, whatever ran on PBS that may have been incidentally innocuous it would have only been part of an effort to normalize the propaganda.

Myself, I am happy that PBS is on the road to ending because it has no place in America.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Myself, I am happy that PBS is on the road to ending because it has no place in America.

It has a place in America, freedom of speech and all that, just not with public funds.

[MeganC]

It has a place in America, freedom of speech and all that, just not with public funds.

It does not need a public charter, either. Let them go 100% private.

https://cpb.org/aboutpb/act/

[verga]

Myself, I am happy that PBS is on the road to ending because it has no place in America.

It has a place in America, freedom of speech and all that, just not with public funds.


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Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on Today at 01:47:38 pm
It has a place in America, freedom of speech and all that, just not with public funds.

It does not need a public charter, either. Let them go 100% private.


  to both comments. It does have a place, but it needs to be self sustaining.

[cato potatoe]

Classical music fans need to do a better job of supporting their local FM stations, symphony orchestras, and resident artists.  NPR/PBS was never going to be a long-term benefactor as the genre is too euro-centric for the arsonists on the left.  Local governments have reduced funding for this reason.

[roamer_1]

I disagree.

Sesame Street was exposed in depth by Ben Shapiro and even The Atlantic wrote about Shapiro's work:
[...]

Mr. Roger's Neighborhood was perniciously anti-masculine and taught a generation of young men that being a p*ussy was righteous.
[...]

No, whatever ran on PBS that may have been incidentally innocuous it would have only been part of an effort to normalize the propaganda.

Myself, I am happy that PBS is on the road to ending because it has no place in America.

Like I am sure I declared upthread, it is a propaganda outlet for the liberals.  I said it. I am not defending public funding either, for anything, ever. As a Conservative, SmallGovernment guy, that ought to go without saying.

What I said was that not all of their programming was bad. Which is true. Their nature shows were great.  Others appreciated their music. There's nothing wrong with that.

And as a survivor of Sesame Street and Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, all that ran off of me like water off a duck's back. No liberalism here. None.

Because ThunderCats.

[GtHawk]

Classical music fans need to do a better job of supporting their local FM stations, symphony orchestras, and resident artists.  NPR/PBS was never going to be a long-term benefactor as the genre is too euro-centric for the arsonists on the left.  Local governments have reduced funding for this reason.

I am fortunate that I have KUSC to listen to, yes they have their radioathons? Asking for donations but they are completely free of NPR/PBS.

https://www.kusc.org/our-story