{"id":114356,"date":"2025-08-03T01:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T01:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114356\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T01:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T01:03:09","slug":"pbs-appalachia-and-blue-ridge-pbs-not-shutting-down-despite-federal-funding-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114356\/","title":{"rendered":"PBS Appalachia and Blue Ridge PBS not shutting down despite federal funding cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(WDBJ) &#8211; PBS Appalachia and Blue Ridge PBS are not shutting down despite federal funding cuts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbsavirginia.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.pbsavirginia.org\/\">PBS Appalachia Virginia<\/a> said Friday, August 1 in a Facebook post. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdbj7.com\/2025\/08\/01\/corporation-public-broadcasting-shut-down-after-being-defunded-by-congress-targeted-by-trump\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wdbj7.com\/2025\/08\/01\/corporation-public-broadcasting-shut-down-after-being-defunded-by-congress-targeted-by-trump\/\">closure<\/a> due to federal funding cuts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WDBJ7 spoke with PBS officials July 25 about the possibility of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdbj7.com\/2025\/07\/26\/blue-ridge-pbs-danger-after-federal-funding-cuts\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wdbj7.com\/2025\/07\/26\/blue-ridge-pbs-danger-after-federal-funding-cuts\/\">PBS Blue Ridge being shut down<\/a>. However, because of donations from local viewers, PBS will not shut down in our area, according to the Facebook post. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">PBS Appalachia Virginia says to continue providing programming for local shows, documentaries, and podcasts, donations are still needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"\">Click here<\/a> to donate to PBS Appalachia Virginia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WDBJ. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WDBJ) &#8211; PBS Appalachia and Blue Ridge PBS are not shutting down despite federal funding cuts, PBS Appalachia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":93766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[61978,171,71916,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-114356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-blue-ridge-pbs","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-pbs-appalachia","11":"tag-tv","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114962143988477607","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}