#public-television — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #public-television, aggregated by home.social.
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https://oklahomavoice.com/briefs/veto-override-to-save-oeta-fails-in-oklahoma-senate/
Excerpt: OETA, the state’s affiliate of the Public Broadcasting Service, is the eighth-most-watched public TV station in the country, it reported. More than 650,000 viewers watch the station each week.
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The Rescissions Act ended all federal support for NPR, PBS, and their member stations.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/18/nx-s1-5469912/npr-congress-rescission-funding-trump
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#NPR #PBS #Radio #Television #Broadcasting #PublicRadio #PublicTelevision #US #USA #Politics
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How Creators Are Reframing Southern Identity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu-5Qqr2Ss0 #PublicTelevision
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Hollywood Reporter: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Formally Dissolves After Loss of Federal Funding. “The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is formally dissolving several months after its federal funding was rescinded, but with a plea for public media to continue.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/06/hollywood-reporter-corporation-for-public-broadcasting-formally-dissolves-after-loss-of-federal-funding/ -
Vermont Public is having their winter membership drive and offering a very Vermont-appropriate sweepstakes. The winner will receive four snow tires.
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Big Mama Thornton, Sippie Wallace, Jeannie Cheatham - Three Generations of The Blues - 1983
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erZHnV2ddZU #PublicTelevision #Music #Blues
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The American Revolution – Premieres Nov. 16 – PBS
About the Film
Thirteen American colonies unite in rebellion, win an eight-year war to secure their independence, and establish a new form of government that would inspire democratic movements at home and around the globe. What begins as a political clash between colonists and the British government grows into a bloody struggle that will engage more than two dozen nations and forever change the world.
Official Trailer, Explore the Revolution Events Resource Center For the Classroom
Premieres Nov. 16
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Thirteen colonies unite in rebellion, win their independence, and found the United States.
The American Revolution is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and Vizio. Stream The American Revolution on pbs.org Download the PBS App
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Tags: 13 Colonies, 250 Anniversity America, British Government, Change the World, classrooms, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, David Schmidt, documentary, Film, Ken Burns, Local PBS Stations, PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, Public Television, Resource Center, Sarah Botstein, series, The American Revolution#13Colonies #250AnniversityAmerica #britishGovernment #changeTheWorld #classrooms #corporationForPublicBroadcasting #davidSchmidt #documentary #film #kenBurns #localPbsStations #pbs #publicBroadcastingService #publicTelevision #resourceCenter #sarahBotstein #series #theAmericanRevolution
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I urge everyone, especially those in the #USA, to support a #PublicRadio or a #PublicTelevision station. Whether you stream something or you have a local channel you watch pick one and make a one time donation at least.
Suspend service to one of your paid streaming platforms for one month and put that $$ towards #PublicBroadcasting.
For $10 a month you could support #PBS and get access to their streaming app. Give more and help out their #News efforts that are needed now more than ever.
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Thirty Bob Ross paintings will be auctioned over the next few months, with proceeds going to small and rural public stations across the United States that have had their funding cut off. Congress has eliminated $1.1 billion allocated to public broadcasting, leading to many stations making programming cuts and laying off staff. Most of the paintings of mountain vistas and lake scenes were created on air, in under 30 minutes. Ross "dedicated his life to making art accessible to everyone,” said Joan Kowalski, president of Bob Ross Inc. “This auction ensures his legacy continues to support the very medium that brought his joy and creativity into American homes for decades.” Here's more from @AssociatedPress.
#BobRoss #Art #Auction #USPolitics #PublicRadio #PublicTelevision #TrumpAdministration #NPR #PBS
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Melinda used to be our neighbor and is one of the coolest people ever. She takes #mosstodon #sporespondence and the #lichen to à whole ‘nother level.
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Tubefilter: YouTube is taking over TV viewership in the U.K. Legacy broadcasters are not happy about it.. “Public broadcasters in the U.K. are facing stiff competition from YouTube both on TV and online, and as a result want regulators to force YouTube to give them more money and more prominence on its own platform.”
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Do you know that for $60 a year you can subscribe to PBS Passport? It has over 1000 episodes of classic shows like American Masters, the American Experience, Antiques Roadshow and NOVA. For $60, you can support your local station. That's $5 a month.
Until we organize, it's a way to support your local PBS station. And if we don't organize something soon, PBS may be gone, along with NPR. They are worth saving.
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no idea the likelihood sesame street is down for the count but think it fair to say i learned the vast bulk of my core principles from watching this show (principles elided in my upbringing (i wasn't brought up, i was thrown up))
long live the bird and his friends (especially snuffleupagus my childhood fave), it's been real
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#CorporationForPublicBroadcasting #CPB #PublicBroadcasting #PublicTelevision #PublicRadio
"As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity."
—Rick StevesPhoto: "Rick Steves' Europe"—Rick Steves online
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting to close after US funding cut
Closure of public broadcasting group follows House Republicans’ decision to strip $1.1bn in funding over two years
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/01/corporation-for-public-broadcasting-closure
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#Trump signed a bill Thurs canceling about $9 billion that was approved for #PublicBroadcasting & #ForeignAid as #Republicans look to lock in cuts to programs targeted by #DOGE.
The bulk of the spending being clawed back is for foreign aid programs. About $1.1B was destined for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which finances #NPR & #PBS, though most of that money is distributed to more than 1,500 local #PublicRadio & #PublicTelevision stations around the country. -
Storylords is a hyperlocal core memory.
A documentary short on the hit childhood series "Storylords" by Edmund Jakober, aired on PBS in the late 1980's. In the education system, this was showed in schools across Wisconsin and further! A show that never dies and talked about almost 40 years later. Documentary Directed and Produced by Delaney Hoffman.
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Now would be a very good time to donate to your local #publicRadio, #publicTelevision, or other #publicMedia outlets, now that federal funding has been slashed. In #Seattle, there aren't many media outlets that do news reporting funded by public money. Support them while you still can.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/congress-rescinds-public-media-funding-kuow-statement
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“He was unpleasantly surprised that a lot of conservative politicians from red states resisted,” said Steve Oney, the author of “On Air,” a book on the history of #NPR. “In their communities, their #PublicRadio & #PublicTelevision stations were seen as assets.”
Now, though, Oney said, “people get their news from anywhere they want, so there’s not the critical-mass support back in red-state America for #PublicBroadcasting.”
#Trump #Republicans #censorship #authoritarianism #autocracy
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But in the years that followed, the strength of local #PublicTelevision & #PublicRadio stations in conservative states was often what saved the #federal #funding.
In 1995, #NewtGingrich, then the #House speaker, made one of the most aggressive moves since #Nixon to “zero out” federal support for #PublicMedia before he found it politically untenable.
#Trump #Republicans #PublicBroadcasting #censorship #authoritarianism #autocracy
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Only Two Republicans Voted Against #Trump Defunding #SesameStreet
Senate #Republicans just took a wrecking ball to #PublicBroadcasting.
Malcolm Ferguson
July 17, 2025"Only two Republican senators broke the line to vote against their party’s plan to defund the #CorporationForPublicBroadcasting.
"#Alaska’s #LisaMurkowski and #Maine’s #SusanCollins joined Senate Democrats in opposition to Republican cuts to organizations like PBS and NPR, and the smaller stations that they fund. While PBS and NPR would still continue at the national level, the cuts would likely devastate those local stations that rely on them.
"The Senate approved $9 billion dollars of cuts early Thursday morning, with $1.1 billion in cuts to public broadcasting and $8.8 billion from foreign aid programs like #USAID, which #ElonMusk’s #DOGE slashed earlier this year.
" 'The vast majority of this funding, more than 70 percent, actually flows to local television and radio stations,' Collins said last month during an earlier stage of the deliberation. 'In #Maine, this funding supports everything from #EmergencyCommunications in rural areas to coverage of high school basketball championships and [a] locally produced high school quiz show. Nationally produced television programs such as #AntiquesRoadshow, #DanielTigersNeighborhood, are also enjoyed by many throughout our country.'
" 'I understand … the concern about subsidizing the national radio news programming that for years has had a discernibly partisan bent,' she added.
'There are, however, more targeted approaches to addressing that bias at NPR than rescinding all of the funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.' She backed up that thinking with her vote on Thursday morning, along with Murkowski."#CPB #CommunityRadio #PublicTelevision #GOPHatesSesameStreet #TrumpHatesSesameStreet #GOPAreHaters #Fascism #Corporatocracy #FuckTheGOP #CommunityRadio
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'If I wasn't here, people could die': Trump public media cuts could hit rural America
Thomas Copeland, BBC World Service
July 15, 2025"A gale-force storm hit north-eastern #Alaska last winter. Residents of #Kotzebue, a town of about 3,000, are used to polar conditions, so Desiree Hagan still had to get to work.
" 'The snow was so intense you could not see in front of you,' Ms Hagan remembers. 'I was walking backwards to work.'
"Ms Hagan is a reporter at a public radio station, #KOTZ, which airs across Kotzebue and its 12 surrounding villages.
She also happens to be the only US journalist stationed inside the Arctic Circle, so as the storm intensified, she had to get on the air." 'It's go time, I have to report on this,' recalls Ms Hagan. 'We have to make sure we know where people can go. Oh, the electric is out. Okay, now the airport is flooded.'
" 'Winter is not a joke here, it is life and death,' she tells the BBC. 'As a reporter I try not to make emotional statements like, if I wasn't here, people could die, but that is a reality.'
"On the other side of the country in #WashingtonDC, however, a historic vote could bring federal support for KOTZ to an end.
"The Senate must decide by the end of the week whether to claw back $1.1bn (£800m) from the #CorporationForPublicBroadcasting, the body that distributes federal funding to public radio and television stations.
"While the #PublicMedia cuts are part of a broad spending package, which includes requests to rescind $8.3bn from the United States Agency for International Development and other foreign aid programmes, they are especially dear to President Donald Trump, who frequently accuses media of bias."The president has now threatened to pull his support from any Republican senator who does not support the cuts.
" 'It is very important that all Republicans adhere to my Recissions Bill and, in particular, DEFUND THE CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING (PBS and NPR), which is worse than CNN & MSDNC put together,' Trump posted on Truth Social Thursday night.
"Executives at National Public Radio (#NPR) and the Public Broadcasting System (#PBS) reject accusations of bias and say they abide by all journalistic standards.
"Republican voters, however, are about three times less likely than Democrats to consume or trust news coverage from either outlet, according to the Pew Research Center.
"While the cuts will affect national broadcasters like NPR and PBS, more than 70% of federal funding goes to local media stations and about 45% of the stations that received funding in 2023 are in rural areas.
"For half of those rural stations, federal grants made up a quarter or more of their revenue. At KOTZ in Kotzebue, public funding constitutes 41% of its income.
" 'By no means is it assured of being passed in the Senate, where many of the Republican senators represent rural states that really do benefit from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting,' Democratic congressman Dan Goldman, co-chair of the Public Broadcasting Caucus, told the BBC World Service's Weekend programme.
"Republican Senator #LisaMurkowski of Alaska has said she opposes the cuts to public media stations, warning that "what may seem like a frivolous expense to some has proven to be an invaluable resource that saves lives in Alaska".
'Almost to a number, they're saying that they will go under if public broadcasting funds are no longer available to them,' Murkowski told a Senate hearing last month. "Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20w51rkw4no?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-usArchived version:
https://archive.ph/ltoA4#USSenate #BudgetCuts #CPB #CPBFunding #PublicRadio #PublicTelevision #CollegeRadio #CommunityRadio #TrumpSucks #TrumpHatesThePoor #USPol #Censorship #Fascism #Authoritarianism #SilencingDissent #TrumpIsABigUglyDespot
