The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the conduit for federal funds to NPR and PBS, announced on Friday that it is beginning to wind down its operations given President Trump has signed a law clawing back $1.1 billion in funding for public broadcasting through fiscal year 2027.
The announcement follows a largely party-line vote last month that approved the cuts to public broadcasting as part of a $9 billion rescissions package that also included cuts to foreign aid that was sent by the White House earlier this year. While public media officials had held a glimmer of hope that lawmakers would restore some of the money in the following year, the Senate Appropriations Committee declined to do that on Thursday.
CBS NBC and FOX are still available without cable in most places if that’s what you mean. Aka with an antenna.
Or you could use the internet for news
So I’m lucky that KCUR is a good local station that talks the local. But we also get a lot from the Kansas Public Radio on the farming communities out west, the sort of places CBS, NBC, and FOX all ignore, much less the internet unless someone has a weirdly specific blog.
And a lot of these places the antenna isn’t going to get you much. So lot of the farm crowd that voted this way thought they were abandoned by the coasts before, gonna really suck for them now.