AUSTIN (KXAN) -- On a November day nearly 60 years ago, a Texas man put pen to paper and made a historic impact on the structure and accessibility of television and radio. The system that was established then is now being dismantled, leaving the future in limbo for many local public media stations across the country.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, or CPB. The CPB is a private, nonprofit corporation that acts as the "steward of the federal government’s investment in public broadcasting and the largest single source of funding for public radio, television, and related online and mobile services," according to its website.

It has helped provide funding to hundreds of outlets, including a few in Au

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