{"id":229216,"date":"2026-01-05T21:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/229216\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T21:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:33:08","slug":"corporation-for-public-broadcasting-dissolves-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/229216\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporation for Public Broadcasting dissolves itself"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leaders of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private agency that has steered federal funding to PBS, NPR and hundreds of public television and radio stations across the country, voted Monday to dissolve the organization that was created in 1967.<\/p>\n

CPB had been winding down<\/a> since Congress acted last summer to defund its operations at the encouragement of President Donald Trump. Its board of directors chose Monday to shutter CPB completely instead of keeping it in existence as a shell.<\/p>\n

\u201cCPB\u2019s final act would be to protect the integrity of the public media system and the democratic values by dissolving, rather than allowing the organization to remain defunded and vulnerable to additional attacks,\u201d said Patricia Harrison, the organization\u2019s president and CEO.<\/p>\n

Many Republicans have long accused public broadcasting, particularly its news programming, of being biased toward liberals but it wasn\u2019t until the second Trump administration \u2014- with full GOP control of Congress \u2014 that those criticisms were turned into action<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ruby Calvert, head of CPB\u2019s board of directors, said the federal defunding of public media has been devastating.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven at this moment, I am convinced that public media will survive, and that a new Congress will address public media\u2019s role in our country because it is critical to our children\u2019s education, our history, culture and democracy to do so,\u201d Calvert said.<\/p>\n

CPB said it was financially supporting the American Archive of Public Broadcasting in its effort to preserve historic content, and is working with the University of Maryland to maintain its own records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leaders of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private agency that has steered federal funding to PBS, NPR…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[117628,969,93,1595,41296,61,60,30812,117629,1650,103375,117630,282,25173],"class_list":["post-229216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-corporation-for-public-broadcasting","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-government-budgets","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-national-public-radio","tag-patricia-harrison","tag-politics","tag-public-media","tag-ruby-calvert","tag-tv","tag-washington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}