By Rob Tornoe, The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)

A public media organization in a university town just a few hours northwest of Philadelphia is set to be the first in the country to go dark after the Trump administration stripped away federal funding for NPR and PBS.

WPSU, Penn State’s NPR and PBS affiliate and the first educational TV station in Pennsylvania, will go dark sometime within the next nine months due to the combined fiscal forces of Trump’s cuts and declining support from the school.

“Never would have imagined it,” said Jeff Hughes, WPSU’s former program director who retired in August following a 35-year career with the station. “The news devastated me; it devastated all the employees.”

WPSU has been broadcasting for more than 70 years and currently serves State College and

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