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 ...

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.

Hi! My name is Naomi Ward, I’m an eleven year old in sixth grade and I heard that you were thinking about shutting down the channel P.B.S. Kids, because it is “uneducational” well, I’m writing this to ...

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 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 ...

PITTSBURGH — Although rocked by federal funding cuts, non-profit media corporation WQED denies reports that it’s considering closing its doors. In a statement, officials said they’d been made aware of ...

PITTSBURGH — WQED officials are reacting to the news that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will begin shutting down. Known as the CPB, the funding arm for PBS and NPR announced its decision ...

Some very sad news from Washington today. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced that it was beginning an “orderly wind-down of its operations” following the passage of Trump’s ...

WQED Multimedia in Pittsburgh will lay off 19 staffers, the station announced Wednesday. The layoffs represent 35% of the station’s full- and part-time staff, CEO Jason Jedlinski told Current in an ...

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He says they've been thinking about a path forward for a couple of years now. "We're going back to our roots in many ways by being very focused on the local community," Jedlinski said. Jedlinski says ...

Earlier this morning, the Senate approved sweeping cuts to public media funding, threatening PBS Kids and with it, one of the few screen-time options built entirely around how children learn and grow.