Oct. 1, 2025, marks the public media’s first day without government funding in over 50 years, NPR wrote in a website pop-up asking for public donations.

Cuts to NPR, PBS and other public media outlets have been in the news all year long, but now the federal funds have actually ...

CEO of America’s Public Television Stations: “Without federal funding, local stations are eliminating or reducing local ...

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PBS, the country’s largest public television programming distributor, is laying off dozens of employees nearly two months after lawmakers voted to deprive the outlet of hundreds of millions of dollars ...

CHARLOTTE — PBS North Carolina has laid off 32 employees due to a $4.8 million budget shortfall caused by federal funding ...

PBS is laying off 100 staffers — about 15% of its workforce — after Congress and President Trump followed through on a decades-old conservative goal: ending taxpayer subsidies for public broadcasting.

PBS has eliminated almost 100 staff positions over the last several months because of a loss of federal funding, it said Thursday. The job cuts include 34 staff members who were notified Thursday that ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Coping with a sudden loss in federal funding, PBS affiliate KSPS in Spokane, Washington, faced a surprise extra hurdle. Many of its contributing members — at one point almost half — ...

NEW YORK — Coping with a sudden loss in federal funding, PBS affiliate KSPS in Spokane, Wash., faced a surprise extra hurdle. Many of its contributing members — at one point almost half — lived in ...