First state announces to have cut ties with PBS due to ‘not feasible’ costs - The commission cited annual membership dues of approximately $2.5 million as ‘not feasible’ ...

Arkansas TV will drop its PBS affiliation in July after CPB’s defunding left the network unable to cover more than $2 million in annual dues.

Arkansas will become the first state in the country to drop its affiliation with PBS after the Arkansas Educational Television Commission voted Dec. 11, 2025, to end its contract with the national ...

The chasm is widening between NPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the nonprofit that funneled federal dollars to public media until Congress killed that funding earlier this year. NPR’s ...

Public media, including the Public Broadcasting System, finds itself in uncharted waters in the aftermath of the almost complete shutdown of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting on October 1. In ...

Cascade PBS in Seattle is cutting 17 employees in response to the rescission of federal funding to public broadcasting. “This unprecedented federal decision has had devastating effects on more than ...

NPR's lawsuit against its decades-long partner, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, is headed for trial in December, a federal judge ruled Thursday. It is another marker of the Trump ...

NPR has asked a federal judge in D.C. to block the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from transferring millions in satellite funding to a newly formed nonprofit run by a coalition of public media ...

Arkansas becomes the first state to cut ties with PBS after a state commission voted to end its contract, citing $2.5 million annual dues and federal funding losses.

Updated November 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM EST The Corporation for Public Broadcasting agreed Monday to fulfill a $36 million, multi-year contract with NPR that it had yanked after pressure from the Trump ...