Arkansas has become the first state to end its affiliation with PBS following cuts to public television by the Trump ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
But when he looks over and sees the PBS Kids logo, he feels he can stand down. “It is one thing that we don’t have to worry ...
Longtime documentary filmmaker Ken Burns praised the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) as the "Declaration of Independence" for communications while lamenting the loss of its federal funding on ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed a government funding bill Wednesday night, ending a record 43-day shutdown that caused financial stress for federal workers who went without paychecks, ...
The longest government shutdown in U.S. history ended Wednesday after President Trump signed the funding bill into law. The House narrowly passed the funding package with six Democrats joining ...