Public Broadcasting Appropriations
History and Current Request
In every community across the country, people turn to public radio and television for programs that inform and inspire, for lifelong education, for local news and information, for arts and cultural content, and for a variety of other services. Public broadcasting, or what should more accurately be called “public media,” has many faces, and employs around 21,000 people, but public media are best-known by the nearly 1,300 local public radio and television stations that provide unique local service to their communities. When Congress appropriates money to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), it is benefitting some 170 million Americans who…
