The defunded Corporation for Public Broadcasting will get one of TV's biggest prizes

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 12:23 PM EDT, September 2, 2025


The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will be honored with one of the television’s top prizes even as it winds down its nearly 60-year work after the U.S. government withdrew funding.

The organization, which has helped pay for PBS, NPR, 1,500 local radio and TV stations as well as programs like “Sesame Street” and “Finding Your Roots,” will be awarded the Television Academy’s Governors Award, which honors those who have “made a profound, transformational and long-lasting contribution to the arts and/or science of television.”

It will be handed to Patricia de Stacy Harrison, the longest-serving president and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony on Sept. 7. “For more than half a century, CPB has been a steadfast champion of storytelling that informs, educates and unites us and ensures public media remains a vital space where diverse voices are heard and communities are served,” Television Academy Chair Cris Abrego said in a statement Tuesday.

The corporation told employees that most staff positions will end with the fiscal year on Sept. 30. A small transition team will stay until January to finish any remaining work.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/corporation-public-broadcasting-governors-award-emmys-fde171259e989cd766d96a95c39f1540

[Biophilic]

1. Damn, so much good done over so many decades just trampled.

Honestly deeply sad.

[Deuxcents]

2. Award them with continued funding.

[Figarosmom]

3. Too bad the award isnt a monetary award...nt

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. What I totally don't get is why they shut down 20 minutes

after DOGE, or whatever, scowled at them. Really, that's what it feels like.

[LudwigPastorius]

6. "What I totally don't get is why they shut down..."

The CPB was almost entirely funded by Congress, and its sole purpose was to disburse funding to local public broadcasting operations. When all the money was cut off, it could no longer pay rent for office space or pay salaries for its employees, much less fulfill its mission.

I suppose it could try to continue to operate with volunteers and donated office space, but without money to send to local PBS stations, what's the point?

[Delmette2.0]

5. Why can't ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox

All chip in and make up for what 47 has taken away?

[rampartd]

8. because abc and the others support krasnov and always have.

[Delmette2.0]

11. I guess it was a stupid question.

I am so tired of 47's greed for more than money. He wants loyalty, votes, women, grandeur ( even if it is fake), our peace of mind.

Thanks for taking time to answer my question.

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. ...

[calimary]

7. I'm still just stunned and shocked that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is ending.

I still can’t believe it.

[FeelingBlue]

9. If I were a billionaire...

CPB would receive one of my donations, funding it for five years until, we hope, we emerge from this national nightmare, damaged but still living and recognizable.

[samnsara]

10. i hope they are planning on a big come back once trumps dead

[oasis]

12. This is still America, count on a return of PBS.

[obamanut2012]

17. PBS did not go away

It's still around. Rural stations may have to close, and some have, which sucks, but PBS is alive and kicking.

[Oopsie Daisy]

13. After the Trump horror show is over... could the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ever be revived?

Could something new arise from the ashes that would be equally influential and valuable?

[maxsolomon]

15. Considering that Republican Senators will still exist,

probably not. The future of the Federal Government is pinched and mean.

[Oopsie Daisy]

16. Sigh. (We'll have to do something about that... ASAP.)