{"id":494921,"date":"2026-01-05T21:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/494921\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T21:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:08:10","slug":"corporation-for-public-broadcasting-board-votes-to-end-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/494921\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporation for Public Broadcasting Board Votes To End Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting<\/a> voted to dissolve the organization after Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s successful effort last year to roll back federal funding.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe move is not a surprise: After it became clear that funding would not be restored, the CPB announced in August<\/a> it would be shutting down operations. It had about 100 employees, and a transition team has been in place since the fiscal year ended September 30.<\/p>\n

\n\tPatricia Harrison<\/a>, president and CEO of the CPB, said in a statement, \u201cWhen the Administration and Congress rescinded federal funding, our Board faced a profound responsibility: CPB\u2019s final act would be to protect the integrity of the public media<\/a> system and the democratic values by dissolving, rather than\u00a0allowing the organization to remain defunded and vulnerable to additional attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe board vote was at the corporation\u2019s Dec. 10 meeting, but it was announced on Monday. <\/p>\n

\n\tGOP lawmakers voted to rescind $1.1 billion<\/a> in federal funding already allocated to the CPB for the next two fiscal years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe CPB was formed by an act of Congress in 1967 to distribute funds to public media outlets, including local stations and, through the years, NPR<\/a> and PBS. The CPB has noted that the majority of its funding, about 70%, goes to local stations, not the national outlets.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs part of the closure, the CPB will distribute remaining funds and provide support to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. CPB\u2019s own archives will be preserved in a partnership with the University of Maryland.<\/p>\n

\n\tRuby Calvert, chair of the CPB board of directors, said in a statement, \u201cWhat has happened to public media is devastating. After nearly six decades of innovative, educational public television and radio service, Congress eliminated all funding for CPB, leaving the Board with no way to continue the organization or support the public media system that depends on it. Yet, even in this moment, I am convinced that public media will survive, and that a new Congress will address public media\u2019s role in our country because it is critical to our children\u2019s education, our history, culture and democracy to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn November, the CPB and NPR reached a settlement over litigation over a contract to provide almost $36 million in interconnection funds. NPR had claimed that the CPB withheld the funds in response to a Trump executive order. That executive order is being challenged in court, and CPB agreed not to enforce it unless a judge directs them to do so.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe CPB, meanwhile, has moved to dismiss its lawsuit against the Trump administration over its effort to remove board members last spring. \u201cThis case is moot and should be dismissed,\u201d the CPB and the Trump administration said in a joint status report filed on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting voted to dissolve the organization after Donald Trump\u2018s successful effort…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":494922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[47395,69,36555,171,398,30120,70422,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-494921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-corporation-for-public-broadcasting","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-electionline","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-media","13":"tag-npr","14":"tag-patricia-harrison","15":"tag-tv","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115844540285404665","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494921","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=494921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}