Corporation for Public Broadcasting

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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB; stylized in all lowercase as cpb) was an American non-profit corporation created under the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 to promote and help support public broadcasting in the United States. The corporation's mission was to ensure universal access to non-commercial, high-quality educational, cultural, and other content and telecommunications services. The CPB received annual funding from Congress from 1967 to 2025. By law, more than 70 percent of its annual funding was directly allocated to locally owned public radio and television stations (more than 1,500 as of 2025), including PBS and NPR stations. In particular, CPB funding was a key part of small and rural public media station budgets. Following the Trump administration's elimination and reallocation of federal funding for the organization, the CPB announced on August 1, 2025, that it would cease operations sometime in January 2026. Most of its staff departed following the end of the...

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