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Project 2025 was spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation and mobilized a broad coalition of more than 100 conservative organizations to produce a detailed governance roadmap called "Mandate for Leaders...
Public broadcasters NPR and PBS are widely accused by conservative officials and the White House of left-leaning bias and have been the target of hearings, an executive order ending federal support, a...
Since 2025 Congress and the White House moved to eliminate roughly $1.1 billion in federal support for public broadcasting, PBS and many local stations have shifted fundraising tactics: PBS cut its bu...
PBS does not publish a single nationwide percentage that isolates *individual donations* from other private support; however, the supplied analyses consistently show that roughly , with federal suppor...
PBS receives a modest but politically salient share of its revenue from federal sources: independent analyses in mid-2025 place , which is the vehicle for federal support to public broadcasters, while...
Een kabinet bestaande uit D66, VVD, GroenLinks–PvdA en CDA zou volgens de beschikbare formatieverslagen en media‑analyses als een ‘middenkabinet’ of centrumkabinet worden gekarakteriseerd: het combine...
The public-facing 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 “” line ite...
Federal support for PBS and its member stations historically represented a relatively small but vital share of station budgets — commonly cited at about 8–10% of local stations’ revenues — but in 2025...
Local PBS member stations draw their revenue from a mix of federal, state/local government, and private sources, with ; however, substantial variation exists across stations, with some rural outlets d...
A narrow set of rural and tribal public radio stations were disproportionately dependent on community service grants (CSGs) going into 2025—dozens of outlets relied on CPB for a third or more of opera...
in 2025 forced and its station partners to make immediate program and staffing cuts that hit local stations, weekend and specialty news programming, children’s educational efforts and hardest; nationa...
NPR’s publicly reported annual operating budget in the period around 2025 is roughly $300 million, and the network receives only about 1% of that directly from the federal government (roughly $11 mill...
PBS’s system-wide revenue in 2025 was a mosaic of sources: multiple reporting points put federal funding at roughly the mid-teens of the public‑television ecosystem’s revenue while individual and corp...
Public television’s federal funding share was a modest but meaningful slice of its overall revenue mix—commonly reported in the 10–15 percent range for the system as a whole through the 2000s and 2010...
The Rescissions Act of 2025 eliminated CPB’s advance appropriations, but multiple legal and administrative pathways existed to reverse or blunt that outcome: prompt Congressional amendment or negotiat...
Since 2020, reporting and legal tracking show media companies and corporate actors have filed a range of suits against activists and advocacy groups — from high-profile tech-platform litigation (X/Twi...
PBS publishes detailed underwriting and program-funding rules that say funders “may not, and has not, exercised any inappropriate influence” over content and require on-air disclosure of legal funder ...
Local PBS stations face immediate budget shortfalls that have already forced layoffs, program cancellations and reduced operations — PBS says the system lost about 21% of revenues and cut roughly 15% ...
Public broadcasters deploy a mix of programs aimed at broadening political perspectives, ranging from funding independent producers and collaborative reporting to audience‑sourced reporting and newsro...
PBS does not receive and directly distribute federal grants to programming; federal funds flow to the public‑media system primarily through the independent nonprofit Corporation for Public Broadcastin...