CPB Funding

WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 22, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will distribute the remaining $7.1 million in obligated Community Service Grant (CSG) funds to eligible local public radio and television stations. Unless new federal funding is appropriated to CPB, these payments will mark the final CSG payments to stations, ending the foundation of federal support that has sustained the operations of 1,500 local public media stations across the country.

HOT SPRINGS, AR (September 22, 2025) – Now in its 34^th year, the 2025 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival (October 10 - 18, 2025) will host its 3^rd annual Filmmaker Forum connecting filmmakers and industry leaders on October 12 - 14 in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-H) appropriations bill, which excludes funding for CPB for the first time in more than five decades.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 31, 2025) -- Patricia Harrison, President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), issued the following statement today in response to the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee markup of the 2026 Labor and Health and Human Services appropriations bill, which provides no funding for CPB:

“CPB is deeply concerned that the Senate Appropriations Committee has advanced a bill that threatens the survival of local public media stations essential in so many ways to the communities they serve.

WASHINGTON, DC (July 18, 2025) -- Patricia Harrison, President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), issued the following statement today in response to the U.S. Senate and House voting this week to approve the Rescissions Act of 2025, which eliminates CPB funding:

“The vote by the U.S. Senate and House to eliminate federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will have profound, lasting, negative consequences for every American.

WASHINGTON, DC (July 14, 2025) – As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on the Rescissions Act of 2025, that would cancel $1.1 billion in already approved funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a new national survey finds that U.S. voters place more trust in public media than media overall and hold a more favorable opinion of public media compared with for profit media.

KANSAS CITY, MO (June 26, 2025) — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced a $200,000 grant to the Public Media Journalists Association (PMJA) to support its Editor Corps program, which provides critical short-term editing help to local public media newsrooms across the country. The funding was announced today at the PMJA 2025 conference in Kansas City, Mo.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 25, 2025) — Through a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), StoryCorps has announced four new public radio stations as part of its One Small Step initiative, which helps bridge partisan divides through civil conversations. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 12, 2025) -- Patricia Harrison, President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), issued the following statement today on the U.S. House of Representatives’ approval of the rescissions package to claw back $1.1 billion of already appropriated funding for CPB for fiscal years 2026 and 2027. The rescissions package now goes to the Senate. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 10, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has awarded a $105,330 grant to Blue Ridge Public Radio (BPR) to support reporting on local and regional recovery efforts from Hurricane Helene. The 18-month grant will fund a full-time reporter, editing capacity, travel, and equipment.