Public Broadcasting Corporation closing after Congress eliminates funding

USA, — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) will shut down operations after Congress cut federal funding for the first time in nearly six decades, the organization announced Friday.

CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison said the nonprofit will begin an "orderly wind-down" following passage of a federal rescissions package and the Senate Appropriations Committee's exclusion of CPB funding from its fiscal 2026 spending bill.

"Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations," Harrison stated.

The corporation, established by Congress in 1967, has distributed federal funds to more than 1,500 public television and radio stations