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  • Television Academy to Honor Corporation for Public Broadcasting with 2025 Governors Award During Creative Arts Emmy Awards Ceremony on Sept. 7

    (LOS ANGELES – September 2, 2025) — The Television Academy today announced the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is the recipient of the 2025 Governors Award, recognizing the organization’s more than five decades of service in enriching America’s media landscape through funding and support for educational, cultural and public-interest programming.

  • CPB Board of Directors to Meet Telephonically on August 28, 2025

    WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 22, 2025) -- The CPB Board of Directors will meet on Thursday, August 28, 2025. Public session will be from 2-2:25 pm and 4:55-5 pm ET. On the draft agenda:

  • CPB Defunding Ends Next Generation Warning System Grant Program for Local Public Media Stations

    WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 18, 2025) -- Following the passage of the Rescissions Act of 2025, which defunded the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and left the organization without operating funds for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2025, CPB no longer can absorb costs and manage the Next Generation Warning System (NGWS) grant program.

  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting Addresses Operations Following Loss of Federal Funding

    WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today 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 FY 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.

  • CPB Statement on the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee Markup of the 2026 Labor-H Appropriations Bill

    WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 31, 2025) -- Patricia Harrison, President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), issued the following statement today in response to the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee markup of the 2026 Labor and Health and Human Services appropriations bill, which provides no funding for CPB:

    “CPB is deeply concerned that the Senate Appropriations Committee has advanced a bill that threatens the survival of local public media stations essential in so many ways to the communities they serve.

  • CPB Board of Directors to Meet Telephonically on July 24, 2025

    WASHINGTON, DC (July 23, 2025) -- The CPB Board of Directors will meet on Thursday, July 24, 2025. Public session will be from 2 – 2:10 pm. On the draft agenda:

  • CPB Statement on Congress' Approval of the Rescission Package Eliminating CPB Funding

    WASHINGTON, DC (July 18, 2025) -- Patricia Harrison, President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), issued the following statement today in response to the U.S. Senate and House voting this week to approve the Rescissions Act of 2025, which eliminates CPB funding:

    “The vote by the U.S. Senate and House to eliminate federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will have profound, lasting, negative consequences for every American.

  • New National Poll: Majority of Voters Trust Public Media More than Media Overall and Highly Value Core Services and Programs

    WASHINGTON, DC (July 14, 2025) – As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on the Rescissions Act of 2025, that would cancel $1.1 billion in already approved funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a new national survey finds that U.S. voters place more trust in public media than media overall and hold a more favorable opinion of public media compared with for profit media.

  • CPB Awards $200,000 Grant to PMJA Editor Corps

    KANSAS CITY, MO (June 26, 2025) — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced a $200,000 grant to the Public Media Journalists Association (PMJA) to support its Editor Corps program, which provides critical short-term editing help to local public media newsrooms across the country. The funding was announced today at the PMJA 2025 conference in Kansas City, Mo.

  • CPB Announces 2025 Grant for Four New Public Radio Hubs for StoryCorps’ One Small Step

    WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 25, 2025) — Through a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), StoryCorps has announced four new public radio stations as part of its One Small Step initiative, which helps bridge partisan divides through civil conversations.