A House subcommittee just approved legislation that would eliminate federal funding for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting (CPB), public radio and television stations’ largest single source of funding.
The bill also strikes Interconnection funding, a federal program that ensures you receive your favorite public media shows and emergency alerts.
If these recommendations take hold, Americans of all ages will be negatively impacted.
Multiple studies confirm that eliminating CPB funding would devastate local public media service, forcing stations to cut valued programs and services or go off-air completely. Public media is the only communications service that reaches virtually every American household – including communities that are underserved by other media sources.
Rural, remote, and tribal communities are more dependent on this federal support and would be the hardest hit by these proposals.
Without Interconnection funding, public media stations would not have the means to distribute public media programs or issue emergency alerts, endangering reliable access to these services.
You can act now to help save our local public media stations. Urge Congress to preserve our access to public media.
Ways To Take Action
Protect My Public Media is an action network of Americans who value public media and contact Congress to advance federal funding. Please visit protectmypublicmedia.org for more information and help keep public media strong.