On this week's Close Up, as we prepare to close the curtain on 2025, we revisit the defining moments in Iowa politics and ...

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An Arkansas Educational Television commissioner is taking issue with the commission's decision to sever ties with the Public ...

Federal funding accounts for about 5% of WFIU’s budget and 20% of WTIU's. Jesse Loudenbarger, associate director of ...

SVP of Station Services Susi Elkins said PBS was shocked to learn that the Arkansas Educational Television Commission would ...

Indiana and federal cuts cost WNIT-TV a total of $1.3 million in funding in 2025. The Bridge Fund grant gives the station ...

Arkansas's only statewide public television network announced that it will be officially rebranding from "Arkansas PBS" to ...

The state’s educational television commission cited a $2.5 million reduction in annual federal funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting as a factor.

Arkansas has become the first state to cut ties with PBS after a state commission voted to end the public television partnership on Thursday. The Arkansas Educational Television Commission said it ...

The loss of federal funding forced a difficult decision, the executive director of Arkansas TV said: Cut PBS, or go off the air entirely. By Benjamin Mullin Arkansas PBS on Thursday severed ties with ...

The governing board of the educational television network formerly known as Arkansas PBS voted Thursday, December 11, 2025 to separate the agency, rebranded as Arkansas TV, from the national network.

CONWAY, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Arkansas’s statewide public television network will change its name to Arkansas TV and will not renew its contract with PBS, effective July 1, 2026. On Dec. 11, Arkansas TV, ...