Officials said the end of the PBS partnership could cost Alabama Public Television millions in funding, 90% of its content and thousands of audience members.

“I’m afraid that it would be the end of APT-PBS as we know it,” APT Commissioner Pete Conroy said.

If it happened, APT would be the first educational network in the country to disaffiliate from PBS, the longtime home of Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood and Reading Rainbow.

After a heated discussion about the fate of Alabama Public Television’s relationship with PBS last week , staff and commissioners say severing ties could change APT forever.

In the weeks leading up to APT’s next public board meeting on Nov. 18, Executive Director Wayne Reid said he is working with the staff to gather information about what it would take

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