Corporation for Public Broadcasting Votes to Shut Down New York Times Jan 5, 2026 If you are not able to read the article, I put the full text of the article below
This is among Trump’s many heinous crimes. Please support PBS and NPR if you possibly can. Watch all the Ken Burns’ documentaries while you still can. You can also watch them on Amazon Prime for now.
Important: This can happen here. Pierre Poilievre has targeted our Public Broadcasting System because he hates it. It is high on his platform if he is elected Prime Minister. It was created by a Conservative government in 1936 based on the BBC
At $33 per capita, Canada ranked 17th out of 20 Western countries in terms of per capita public funding for public broadcasting systems.
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting Votes to Shut Down By Benjamin Mullin New York Times Jan 5, 2026
Executives debated whether to allow the corporation to lie dormant after federal funding ended last year, but decided against it.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funded NPR, PBS and hundreds of local radio and TV stations across the United States for more than a half-century, said on Monday that its board of directors had voted to dissolve the organization because Congress cut off its federal money.
The vote formalized plans announced last year to wind down operations after lawmakers voted to strip more than $500 million in annual funding from the organization. Executives have been emptying the corporation’s coffers in recent months by making grants to public media organizations.
After the federal funding ended, executives at the corporation discussed putting the organization into hibernation, keeping it alive in case Congress eventually voted to restore its federal appropriation. But in a statement on Monday, the corporation said that allowing the organization to lie dormant could have resulted in “political manipulation or misuse,” threatening the independence of public media.
“C.P.B.’s final act would be to protect the integrity of the public media system and the democratic values by dissolving, rather than allowing the organization to remain defunded and vulnerable to additional attacks,” Patricia Harrison, the president and chief executive of the corporation, said in a statement.
The end of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, founded in 1968, begins a new era in public media, with local stations across the United States fighting for survival. Donations from listeners are up, and philanthropists have stepped in, but the long-term future of public TV and radio is far from certain.
