KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Following significant federal funding cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting earlier this year, East Tennessee PBS has received a stabilization grant to help ...
Like many parents, Andrew David keeps a close eye on what programs his 6-year-old son is consuming, often watching shows on YouTube, Netflix, or Disney+ with him or sitting nearby and listening in.
Recent cuts to public media are not just affecting local stations and news programming. They also pose a threat to public children’s and educational programming that reaches millions of kids across ...
A push from state TV Board members that would have prevented series like 'Sesame Street' and 'NewsHour' from broadcasting in the state failed in a vote on Tuesday. By Kevin Dolak Alabama’s Public ...
Last night on Last Week Tonight, John Oliver devoted 35 minutes of his show to the funding crisis gripping public media channels across the country. As Oliver discusses, the attacks on public media ...
Three original paintings by beloved TV artist Bob Ross sold for more than $600,000 at auction to benefit public broadcasting after stations were decimated by the Trump administration’s funding cuts.
“I’m most worried about the most vulnerable stations, so I have spent a fair amount of time working with a few others and some key foundations to try to put a corpus of money together that will give ...
A groundbreaking children’s television show is set to introduce a new character who is largely non-speaking and communicates with the help of a special speech tablet. “Carl the Collector,” which made ...
PBS North Carolinahas laid off 32 employees over the past two weeks following federal funding cuts that resulted in a multi-million dollar reduction to its budget. “When you lose close to a third of ...
National Public Radio is ramping up its fundraising efforts during its first day without federal funding and an uncertain future ahead with a GOP-controlled Congress. “Today marks the first day in ...
PBS Kids is expanding “Super Why’s Comic Book Adventures,” which debuted in 2023 as a series of shorts, into a full half-hour series set to debut in 2026. A spinoff of “Super Why,” which ran on PBS ...
CHARLOTTE — PBS North Carolina has laid off 32 employees due to a $4.8 million budget shortfall caused by federal funding cuts, the Charlotte Business Journal reported. CBJ says the layoffs affect ...