Yahoo

Local news stations react to federal funding cuts, brace for impact

Jul. 18—Congress voted Friday to roll back $1.1 billion in funds allocated to public media, a move that will take millions from local stations in New Mexico. Member stations across the country are ...
Yahoo

Clawback of $1.1b for PBS and NPR Puts Rural Stations at Risk – And Threatens a Vital Source Of Journalism

What will happen to NPR, PBS and local stations? NPR and PBS provide programming to local public television and radio stations across the country. The impact on them will be direct and indirect. Both ...
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The Reality Of Local TV Station Consolidation

As TVNewsCheck’s Janet Stilson reported earlier this week, confirmation of Republican Olivia Trusty to the Federal Communications Commission means Chairman Brenden Carr finally has the votes to begin ...
NPR

Should you give $ to your local public media station?

In the immediate aftermath of Congress' final vote last week to take back money from the public media system, local stations across the country launched emergency drives asking for help. To a large ...
6abc News

Local stations brace for federal cuts to public broadcasting

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- They are the television and radio stations that air popular programming like PBS's Sesame Street and NPR's Morning Edition. Now they're losing more than a billion dollars in ...

Activist local TV stations got Jimmy Kimmel suspended from ABC. Disney says it's proof the system works

In filings with the FCC over the future of national network-local affiliate relations, Disney and other entertainment giants ...
The Vindicator

Amid cuts, local PBS, NPR stations vow to persevere

President Donald J. Trump on Thursday signed a $9 billion rescissions bill that revokes money Congress originally allocated and has already approved in the budget for foreign aid and public ...
Current

With Local Public apps, stations aim to build loyalty with more streamers

A new streaming app that gives public TV stations more customization tools has launched in Washington, D.C., and is coming soon to at least nine other cities. The app, WETA+, was developed for WETA by ...
NPR

Public radio is about to change. A lot. But it's not yet clear exactly how.

With all federal money soon to be stripped from public media, it's clear that NPR and its network of 246 member stations are going to change, and that some of those changes may be significant. The ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

These 3 local radio stations hear ― and respond to ― the Latino community’s needs

Lea el artículo en español aquí. Their work is about informing the community, not creating fear. It’s also about knowing your audience ― and, in some cases, providing it with a much-needed escape.

Trump Shouldn’t Let Local TV Become ‘Fake News’ | Opinion

Approving the Nexstar/Tegna merger would upend the safeguards that protect local news, but that’s not the only cause for ...