{"id":13194,"date":"2025-07-16T03:15:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T03:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13194\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T03:15:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T03:15:04","slug":"kqed-lays-off-45-workers-cuts-programs-amid-12-million-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13194\/","title":{"rendered":"KQED lays off 45 workers, cuts programs amid $12 million deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KQED\u2019s cuts come amid federal threats to public media funding. The U.S. Senate is expected to vote on a measure this week that would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/watch-live-senate-convenes-as-trump-rescission-package-deadline-looms\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">withdraw $1.1 billion<\/a> in funding from the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, which funds PBS, NPR, and 1,500 local stations nationwide. The House has already approved the measure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUncertainties still remain around federal funding, and we must remain vigilant and ready to act should unanticipated scenarios arise. But for now, we have stabilized our financial position,\u201d Isip said in an internal email he sent to staff Tuesday, obtained by The Standard.<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit public broadcaster \u2014 which operates San Francisco\u2019s PBS and NPR TV stations, as well as radio and podcasts \u2014 will also suspend its 403(b) retirement employer match and will pause salary increases starting Oct. 1. The measures, expected to remain in place until October 2026, and other cost savings are projected to save about $13 million annually, according to the email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KQED\u2019s cuts come amid federal threats to public media funding. The U.S. Senate is expected to vote on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,12835,2539,10815,92],"class_list":["post-13194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-kqed","tag-layoffs","tag-media","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}