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(Washington, DC) — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is no more. The board announced on January 5, 2026 that it had voted to dissolve the organization, citing the loss of federal funding and sustained political attacks.
The corporation had for nearly 60 years helped fund educational and cultural programming, including many PBS shows like “Sesame Street”, “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood”, “Frontline”, “NOVA” and “Masterpiece”.
Congress cut funding last year of more than $1 billion after President Trump claimed the programming funded in part by the corporation was biased
Patricia Harrison, CPB’s president and CEO said that when President Donald Trump signed into law last summer a measure to rescind funding by Congress, CPB’s board “faced a profound responsibility: CPB’s final act would be to protect the integrity of the public media system and the democratic values by dissolving, rather than allowing the organization to remain defunded and vulnerable to additional attacks.”
Harrison went on to say, “For more than half a century, CPB existed to ensure that all Americans—regardless of geography, income, or background—had access to trusted news, educational programming, and local storytelling.”
