Public broadcasting company is extinct, with deep relationships with Big Bird and Mister Rogers

The company’s demise, known as CPB, is a direct result of President Donald Trump’s targeting of the public media, who has repeatedly said that it publishes competing political and cultural views of those who must be adopted by the United States. The closure is expected to have a profound impact on the journalistic and cultural scene – especially radio stations and public television in Small societies throughout the United States.

CPB helps to finance both PBS and NPR, but most of its financing is distributed to more than 1500 local radio and television stations throughout the country.

The company also has deep relationships Most of the most knowledgeable programming in the country, Of “all the things that were considered” in NPR, historically, “Sesame Street”, “Mister Rogers District” and documentaries of Ken Burns.

The company said that its end, 58 years after it was signed by President Lindon Johnson, will come in an “Organization”. In a statement, She said that the decision came yet Traffic through Congress from the package This has retracted his financing for the coming budget years – about $ 1.1 billion. After that, the Senate Credit Committee has strengthened this change in politics on Thursday by excluding the Foundation’s financing for the first time in more than 50 years as part of the broader spending bill.

“Despite the exceptional efforts made by millions of Americans who summoned Congress, and asked for a petition to maintain Federal funding for CPB, we are now facing the difficult reality of closing our operations,” said Patricia Harrison, president and CEO of the Foundation.

Another attempt to fund funding failed

Democratic members of the Senate Credit Committee made a recent effort this week to save CBP financing.

As part of the committee’s deliberations on Thursday, Senator Tami Baldwin, D-Wis, authored him, but then withdrew an adjustment to restore CPB financing for the next budget. She still believes that there is a way forward “to fix this before there are devastating consequences on radio and public television stations throughout the country.”

She said, “It is difficult to believe that we ended up in the situation we are.” “I will continue to work with my colleagues to fix it.”

But Senator Shelli Moore Capito, RW.VA, looked less optimistic.

“I understand your concerns, but we all know that we led this two weeks ago,” said Capito. “The adoption of this amendment was inconsistent with what we already voted.”

CPB said it had informed the employees on Friday that most of the employees’ positions would end in the fiscal year on September 30. She said that a small transfer team will remain in its place until January to end any remaining work – including, “ensuring the continuity of the rights of music and royalties that remain necessary for the public media system.”

Harrison said: “The general media was one of the most reliable institutions in American life, as it provides educational opportunities, emergency alerts, civil discourse, and cultural communication with all corners of the country.” “We are very grateful to our partners throughout the regime on the flexibility, leadership and fixed dedication to the American people.”

The effect will be widespread

NPR stations use millions of dollars from federal funds to pay music licensing fees. Now, many will have to Re -negotiation on these deals. This, in particular, may affect the outlets that build their programs on discovering music. NPR and CEO Catherine Maher recently estimated, for example, that about 96 % of all classic music broadcasts in the United States at public radio stations.

Federal funds for radio and public television are traditionally allocated to the public broadcasting company, which it distributes on NPR and PBS. Nearly 70 % of the funds are transmitted directly to 330 PBS and 246 NPR stations throughout the country, although this is just a brief way to describe its potential impact.

Trump, who described CPB as a “monster”, said long ago that public broadcasting is offered a great liberal bias, helped create momentum in recent months for anti -public relations broadcasts between its supporters in Congress and all over the country. It is part of a larger initiative in which the institutions-especially those cultural-that produce content or adopt the positions that it is considered “non-American”. CPB is a political victory for these efforts.

Its impact on the media scene was deep. He also went after the American government media that had independence covenants, including America’s distinguished voice, and the end of the media after several decades.

Trump also launched three members of the company’s board of directors in April. In the legal procedures at the time, the directors who shot them said that their dismissal was the government overcoming a entity that guarantees its independence its charter.