US Edition‘What Connects Us Is Our Airwaves’: How Trump’s Public Media Cuts Might Leave These Communities in the Dark
ALASKA, JUL 29 – Federal funding cuts threaten the survival of 40 tribally licensed public media stations nationwide, with Alaska stations relying on up to 70% of their budgets from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
- Last Thursday, President Donald Trump signed into law $9 billion in DOGE cuts, including $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a key funder of NPR and PBS stations.
- On July 17, Congress voted to eliminate federal funding for public media, with Loris Taylor warning stations could go dark, impacting community services.
- KBRW gets about 40% of its funding from CPB, and KYUK relies on CPB for about 70% of its funds, over $1 million.
- Without that money, stations could go dark, cutting off Indigenous communities from local news, safety alerts and cultural programming, Loris Taylor warned.
- Amid extreme conditions, sea ice slicing cut internet lifelines in the North Slope, and Loris Taylor warned it risks erasing decades of native media infrastructure.
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‘What connects us is our airwaves’: How Trump’s public media cuts might leave these communities in the dark
In Alaska’s North Slope region — the northernmost county in the US, roughly the same size as the United Kingdom — one small public radio station keeps eight villages connected and serves about 10,000 people. Now, it may not survive.
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Leaning Left2Leaning Right1Center7Last UpdatedBias Distribution70% Center
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70% Center
L 20%
C 70%
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