US EditionPublic Broadcasting Corporation Votes to Dissolve After 58 Years
CPB’s closure follows Congress rescinding $1.1 billion in funding, impacting 1,500 public stations and risking closure of 70-80 NPR stations within a year, officials warned.
- The board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting voted Monday to dissolve the organization after 58 years and will distribute remaining funds, supporting archival preservation with the American Archive of Public Broadcasting and the University of Maryland.
- Following a Trump administration-backed rescission, GOP lawmakers removed $1.1 billion allocated for public broadcasting, forcing CPB to wind down operations.
- CPB historically funded NPR, PBS and more than 1,500 locally owned public radio and television stations, directing roughly 70% of funding to local stations with about 100 employees and a transition team managing the wind-down.
- Some local stations are already planning closures, and Arkansas PBS stations disaffiliated as CPB leaders said dissolving was necessary to protect public media independence.
- Created by Congress in 1967, CPB provided nearly six decades of service building a public media ecosystem, but leaders tied its closure Monday to GOP lawmakers' political attacks and funding rescission.
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