{"id":31197,"date":"2025-07-23T12:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/31197\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T12:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:39:09","slug":"application-period-open-for-additional-broadband-funding-butlerradio-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/31197\/","title":{"rendered":"Application Period Open For Additional Broadband Funding &#8211; ButlerRadio.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the groundbreaking ceremony marking a broadband expansion project in northern Butler County, another round of funding is now available to expand internet service.<\/p>\n<p>State officials say the application period is now open for the second and final round of broadband funding, which is $1.16 billion and is known as BEAD funding.<\/p>\n<p>Butler County has partnered with Armstrong once again to propose a \u201cprivate public partnership\u201d to continue broadband expansion in the county.<\/p>\n<p>If awarded the funding, the county would look to target underserved areas in the eastern portion of the county.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the groundbreaking ceremony marking a broadband expansion project in northern Butler County, another round of funding is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[174,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-31197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31197","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=31197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}