How much total revenue did PBS report for fiscal year 2024 and fiscal year 2025 (audited figures)?
Executive summary
The public-facing PBS financial pages list audited consolidated financial reports for fiscal years 2024 and 2025, but the material provided to this inquiry does not include the numeric audited “total revenue” line items from those PDFs, so a precise dollar answer cannot be extracted from the supplied sources [1]. Independent member stations and state networks also publish audited statements—reinforcing that audited totals exist—but those station-level pages in the supplied reporting don’t give the PBS consolidated totals either [2] [3].
1. What the user is really asking and what the sources actually provide
The question seeks a single, quantitative fact: the audited total revenue PBS reported for fiscal year 2024 and fiscal year 2025; that is a line-item located in PBS’ audited consolidated financial statements or financial reports. PBS’ official “Financials” page clearly hosts PDFs labeled “2024 PBS Financial Report” and “2025 PBS Financial Report,” which are the primary documents to answer the question [1]. Several local and member stations similarly publish audited consolidated statements, indicating standard practice across the system for audited transparency [2] [3].
2. Why an exact number cannot be stated from the supplied reporting
None of the snippets or pages provided in this dataset reproduce the audited consolidated “total revenue” dollar amounts from the 2024 or 2025 PBS reports; they only list that the reports exist and link to PDF files [1]. Other supplied documents reference related financial context—such as federal grant balances reported by PBS and commentary about CPB funding—but those citations do not substitute for the audited consolidated revenue totals requested [4] [5]. Therefore, asserting specific revenue figures without direct citation to the PDFs would violate the instruction to cite every factual assertion to the provided sources.
3. Where the numeric answers live and how to retrieve them
The audited consolidated total revenue figures are located inside the 2024 and 2025 PBS Financial Report PDFs on PBS’ Financials page; consulting those filings directly will produce the authoritative audited totals [1]. If a consolidated number is needed immediately, the correct method is to open the “2024 PBS Financial Report [PDF]” and “2025 PBS Financial Report [PDF]” linked on PBS’ Financials page and read the “Consolidated Statements of Activities,” “Consolidated Statements of Financial Position,” or the audited “Consolidated Statements of Revenues” sections where total revenue for the fiscal year is reported [1]. Local station audited statements and member reports (examples at Nine PBS, PBS Wisconsin, Detroit PBS) confirm that audited figures are publicly posted at both the network and station level [2] [3] [6].
4. Broader financial context that matters when interpreting PBS totals
Understanding PBS consolidated totals requires context—federal grants and CPB funding historically account for a slice of public media revenue and PBS’ statements include disclosures about federal award balances, but the supplied excerpts show only that those balances existed (approximately $10.9 million remaining award balance as of June 30, 2024, per the cited PBS financial statements excerpt) rather than the full revenue totals [4]. Industry reporting also emphasizes that station-level revenues vary widely and that system-wide totals combine member station income, distribution fees, institutional support, underwriting, philanthropy and federal grants—details that are reflected across station audits but not reproduced in the supplied snippets [5].
5. Recommended next steps to obtain the exact audited totals
To get the precise audited total revenue numbers for FY2024 and FY2025, open the two PDFs linked on PBS’ Financials page—“2024 PBS Financial Report” and “2025 PBS Financial Report”—and read the consolidated statement of activities or the auditors’ summary; those documents are the authoritative sources cited by PBS on that page [1]. If needed, local station audited consolidated statements are also available via member station pages for verification or to reconcile system-level and station-level reporting [2] [6]. The supplied reporting confirms the location of the documents but does not provide the numeric totals themselves, so consulting the two PDFs is required to answer the question with exact dollar amounts [1].