Weeks after Congress and President Donald Trump rescinded all of its funding, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Sunday received the Television Academy’s 2025 Governors Award on the second night of two-night Creative Arts Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live.
The award honors an individual, company or organization “that has made a profound, transformational and long-lasting contribution to the arts and/or science of television.”
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was specifically tabbed for its “more than five decades of service in enriching America’s media landscape through funding and support for educational, cultural and public-interest programming,” according to a statement from the Television Academy Sept. 2 announcing the award.
“The Governors Award recognizes