Major philanthropic organizations said Monday they are committing nearly $37 million in emergency funding to keep public media stations afloat after Congress passed President Donald Trump’s rescissions bill, which eliminated $1.1 billion in federal funding from PBS and NPR stations over the next two years.

The names are already ones you might hear on an underwriting announcement on your local public radio station: The Knight Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, plus the Schmidt Family Foundation (created by Google co-founder Eric Schmidt) and the Melinda Gates-led group Pivotal Ventures.

A consultancy, Public Media Company, said it launched a “bridge fund” Monday to aid the most at-risk public radio and TV stations across the country, “sta

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