Comment by vel0city
1 day ago
> public funding for my local NPR and PBS stations
Ah, so it's not going anywhere because it's not directly affecting your station. Got it. For many other people it is going away.
This will affect your station though. Lots of stations spent a good bit of their budgets on content from PBS and NPR. While direct federal sources aren't a massive chunk of their income, revenues from member stations is. This will impact the content your local public TV and radio station will get.
Is there any way to find out which stations will be affected, and by how much (e.g. proportion of budget)?
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/01/cpb-npr-pbs-corporation-pub...
Some stations will lose 2%, others 98%.
I'm sure we're going to lose a lot of hyperlocal news and current event programming in Shreveport or whatever, but those programs have tiny audiences (even relative to their media market). Most of what we think of as PBS and NPR programming is delivered principally over the Internet now, not via local broadcast stations.
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