Corporation for Public Broadcasting Votes to Dissolve After Congress Eliminates Funding

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced Monday that its board of directors has voted to dissolve the organization after 58 years, following Congress’s decision to eliminate all federal funding for the entity, a move that effectively ends the CPB’s role as the primary distributor of federal support for public media. Founded in 1967 under the Public Broadcasting Act, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has operated as a private, nonprofit corporation responsible for allocating federal grants to public television and radio stations nationwide. Those funds have long supported educational, cultural, and journalistic programming carried by outlets affiliated with PBS and NPR, among others. The decision to dissolve follows congressional action in the fiscal year 2026 appropriations bill, which rescinded all funding for the CPB and was signed into law by Donald Trump in December 2025. The legislation zeroed out the organization’s roughly $535 million annual budget, removing the...