The U.S. House Labor, Healthb and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittees released its draft fiscal year 2024 appropriations legislation that proposed to zero out federal funding for public media.
The bill eliminates funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), public television and radio’s single largest source of funding, and Interconnection, public media’s distribution network that enables viewers and listeners to receive programs and emergency alerts.
Let us be clear: Without federal funding, there is no public media. Multiple studies confirm that ending funding would devastate, if not destroy, public media, resulting in the loss of programs and services or stations going off air.
Americans consistently rank federal funding for public media as one of the best investments the government makes. For about $1.40 per American annually, almost every community has access to programs and services that educate, inform, and inspire.
The Bag Lady 
We really value our public media up here, even though the Cons want to defund it.
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Of course they do
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It’ll be bad if it comes to an end! Our public media is having issues right now too! There is controversary about employees being paid extra money and it not being known about.
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