Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Board Votes to Dissolve Organization
The Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the private, nonprofit corporation created by Congress to steward the federal government’s investment in public broadcasting, has voted to dissolve the organization after 58 years of service to the American public.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Addresses Operations Following Loss of Federal Funding
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Fiscal Year 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-H) appropriations bill, which excludes funding for CPB for the first time in more than five decades. For nearly 60 years, CPB has carried out its Congressional mission to build and sustain a trusted public media system that informs, educates, and serves communities across the coun
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting Joins Public Media Partner PBS in Celebrating 50 Years of Service to the American People
PBS, the nonprofit member organization and public media program distributor, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. PBS, with 330 member stations serving all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam and American Samoa, provides more than 1,200 hours a year of children's, primetime, educational, and cultural programming.
Statement from CPB on the President’s FY 2021 Budget Proposal Eliminating Funding for Public Media
We look forward to working with Congress in the continued pursuit of our statutory public service mission of supporting educational, informational and diverse content that addresses the needs of our nation’s citizens -- a mission the American people overwhelmingly trust in and support. The federal appropriation to CPB is the foundation of our uniquely American, public-private partnership that supports our nation’s public media system -- a system of more than 1,500 locally controlled and operated public television and radio stations across the country.
CPB Awards $1 Million for Editorial Integrity and Leadership Initiative (Corporation for Public Broadcasting)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 10/29/2018 - 14:43CPB Awards $1.3 Million for Public Radio Urban Alternative Initiative (Corporation for Public Broadcasting)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 08/21/2018 - 13:5950 Public Media Stations Receive CPB Education Planning Grants (Corporation for Public Broadcasting)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 06/14/2018 - 15:04Senate Confirms Two Nominees to the CPB Board of Directors
The Senate has confirmed the nominations of Rubydee Calvert and Laura Gore Ross to the board of directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Calvert worked at Wyoming PBS from its inception in 1983. She served as general manager of the station until her retirement in 2015 and as president of the Wyoming PBS Foundation from 2006-2016. Prior to becoming general manager, she was the director of programming for 24 years, leading the production team to produce the station’s signature series MainStreet, Wyoming.