Corporation for Public Broadcasting President and CEO Patricia Harrison received a standing ovation Sunday before accepting the 2025 Governors Award at Sunday’s Creative Arts Emmys.

The honor comes as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down its operations after the loss of federal funding. It marks the end of almost six decades as the entity that distributed grants to public media, PBS and NPR .

The CPB has noted that the majority of its funding, about 70%, goes to local stations, not the national outlets. Advocates also have pointed to polling showing high levels of public trust in public media.

“Public media is so different in this country, unlike the BBC or other systems in different countries,” Harrison told reporters after receiving the honor. “Stations

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