NPR and three Colorado public radio stations filed suit Tuesday morning in federal court against the Trump White House over the president's executive order purportedly barring the use of Congressionally appropriated funds for NPR and PBS.
#Business #News #Politics #Cpb #Npr #Pbs #PublicBroadcasting #PublicRadio
This is what happens when you take the ‘public’ out of #PublicBroadcasting - ‘Sesame Street’ Heads To Netflix With Streaming Deal For PBS Children’s Series #RepublicansDidThis #RepublicansOwnThis #TV https://deadline.com/2025/05/sesame-street-netflix-streaming-deal-pbs-1236404237/
Instead of the usual intro (a mild pitch for support), OPB now starts their audio stream with a link for info about Trump's Republican cuts to their budget, and what the impacts will be.
Republican Nazis are going to destroy everything in their path where they are not met with resistance. This is Stephen Miller's world. We can't imagine the genius in such a gloriously narrow mind as his.
Oaths. They are like cookies. Not the ones we eat, silly. The ones every website leaves on our devices. The ones we ignore.
Nearly 200 officials from public radio stations across the country are descending on Capitol Hill to seek to convince lawmakers to maintain funding for public broadcasting despite President Trump's campaign against it.
#Business #News #Politics #Cpb #Npr #Pbs #PublicBroadcasting #PublicRadio
Core memories incoming. Which one’s yours? #ViewersLikeMePBS #PublicMedia #PublicBroadcasting
"Less than a day after President Trump attempted to fire three Corporation for Public Broadcasting board members last month, DOGE staffers also tried to assign a team to review its operations.
CPB leaders denied that request, citing federal law that establishes the independent nonprofit outside of the control of the federal government. The request comes as the president is launching a broad assault against the country's two largest public broadcasters. At the same time, the informal Department of Government Efficiency has sought to embed itself in numerous independent agencies Trump wants to shutter.
Those revelations come in court documents filed Friday in a lawsuit where CPB is challenging Trump's April 28 efforts to remove the board members, and after the president issued an executive order May 1 that also purports to end any federal funding to the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio."
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/12/nx-s1-5395978/doge-cpb-board-members-trump-lawsuit-npr-pbs
#USA #Trump #DOGE #PBS #Autocracy #Authoritarianism #PublicBroadcasting
#OnThisDay in 1961, #NewtonMinow, then FCC Chairman and later a guiding force behind the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, delivered his legendary “Vast Wasteland” speech. His challenge to broadcasters to serve the public good helped shape the landscape of educational and cultural programming we value today.
Congratulations to KCLU Radio on its 30th year as an essential part of our community! At the station’s board meeting today, representatives from Congresswoman Julia Brownley and Congressman Salud Carbajal joined me in presenting certificates recognizing this milestone and thanking the station for its award-winning programming over the years.
This is a challenging time for journalism in general and public broadcasting in particular. I encourage everyone to join me in either joining or renewing your membership in at least one public radio and TV station. More info at kclu.org.
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The #FCC Must Reject Efforts to Lock Up Public #Airwaves
President Trump’s attack on public #broadcasting has attracted plenty of deserved attention, but there’s a far more technical, far more insidious policy change in the offing—one that will take away Americans’ right to unencumbered access to our publicly owned airwaves.
#trump #publicbroadcasting #pbs #npr
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/fcc-must-reject-broadcast-drm
"The BBC is the heart of the UK’s media system. Yet despite the BBC being publicly funded, the public have no control over how it works.
Politicians have too much power to pressure the BBC, and it is struggling to compete against global streaming services and social media companies. Without radical reform, the BBC faces a bleak future of dwindling audiences and the loss of public trust.
By the end of 2027 the government is required to renew the BBC’s Royal Charter, which will set the terms of how the BBC operates for the next decade. The Culture Secretary, Lisa Nandy, has said she supports mutualising the BBC, with new structures for “genuine public representation and participation”.
This briefing explains how to transform the BBC into a new kind of institution: a public service mutual. Mutual organisations are run for the benefit of their members, and members are actively and directly involved in its operations.
As a public service mutual, the BBC will belong to all of us by right. We will all become BBC members — active and direct participants in its mission to inform, educate, entertain and connect.
Democratic mutualisation of the BBC requires that all members have two new powers, which together secure public representation and participation:"
https://www.common-wealth.org/publications/our-mutual-friend-the-bbc-in-the-digital-age
#UK #Broadcasting #Media #News #TV #Radio #BBC #PublicBroadcasting
With the public holiday in Queensland yesterday, here's WTF happened last week:
1️⃣ Post-election things look better for the arts, but that is in store for the arts?
#AusVotes2025
2️⃣ Trump comes for the funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
#Trump #ArtsFunding #PublicBroadcasting
Bottom line, I support quality programming that puts the content above advertising dollars and clicks. #Commercialnews is not altruistic. Make #publicbroadcasting better, do not throw the baby out with the bathwater! 5/5
Letter to a #Senator / 05 May:: Mr. #Tillis_ Thank you for your response to my letter regarding the funding of #PublicBroadcasting. I steadfastly disagree with your belief that eliminating federal support of these networks is a meaningful contribution to addressing the country’s #deficit. 1/5
This sounds like something good to tune in to. What events or journeys would you watch as Slow TV, if you could choose?
"Sweden’s Great Moose Migration live stream ends after 478 hours’ viewing
Seventh season of hit ‘slow TV’ show followed annual trek of moose (or elk) heading to summer pastures"
#moose #migration #sweden #streaming #sverige #slowtv #nordic #spring #elk #24x7 #livestream #publicbroadcasting #wildlife #trailcam #greatmoosemigration #naturelovers
Jennifer Liu reports that NPR and PBS CEOs are taking a stand against Trump's executive order targeting their federal funding. On "Face the Nation," Katharine Maher and Paula Kerger stressed the threats to local news and educational programming, emphasizing that 20% of Americans lack access to local news, impacting rural areas, and that cuts could halt essential resources for preschoolers. Click to read more on this critical issue. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/04/npr-and-pbs-to-challenge-trump-over-public-funding-cuts.html #NPR #PBS #Trump #FederalFunding #PublicBroadcasting #Education #Media
Sen. Amy Klobuchar: "Public media delivers news, education, and emergency information to millions of people across Minnesota and the entire country. It’s especially important in rural communities. Pres. Trump’s executive order would take that away. It's just plain wrong."
#PBS #NPR #PublicBroadcasting #politics #media.
@Sheril Echo that for Canadians too. Many of us support PBS.
#PBS #PublicBroadcasting #Media
#MrRoger's entreat to #Congress to maintain funding for #publicbroadcasting remains a fundamental record of why these groups are important to a nation so large and diffused. 3/5
