Comment by staticautomatic
19 hours ago
PBS doesn’t make PBS content either. They acquire it from people who make it using CPB money, among others. Then the stations that don’t make the content license it from PBS, mainly using CPB money. And they use it to attract members/donors.
You’ve framed this as if the disappearance of CPB and its money is basically a big nothing-burger, which is extremely far from the truth.
Source: I work in the system at a level with visibility into these things.
I don't think it's a nothing-burger. I think there will be programming cuts and layoffs even in the major market stations. But it's clearly not an existential threat to PBS.