The 58-year-old nonprofit Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is no more. Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) is all of us now.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funneled your money to NPR and PBS to call birds, roads, and country music racist, is officially out of business.
Good riddance.pic.twitter.com/jjgUGcRjP9
— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) January 5, 2026
For decades, conservatives and Republican legislators have advocated depriving the CPB of taxpayer funding for the very reasons Senator Kennedy laid out in the video: the government should not pay for Democratic programs and left-wing ideology, such as the concept of racist preschoolers or the latest idea from Ken Burns. documentary film about how terrible the founders really were. But Congress was never united enough to cross that line. Thanks to the election of President Donald Trump and the 119th Congress under the leadership of House Speaker Mike Johnson (LA-04) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), they somehow found the courage to cut CPB off the government's chest. The hypocritical leftists who argued that funding for the CPB was necessary because it was such a vital resource for the country that they didn't even bother to cover the $1.1 billion deficit created by cutting off government funding. And so, the once vaunted organization that financed PBS, NPR and some of its sister stations took its last breath.
Hurry to salt the earth so that there is no chance for rebirth.
The board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting voted to dissolve the organization following Donald Trump's successful attempt last year to cut federal funding.
The move is not a surprise: after it became clear that funding would not be restored, the PBC announced in August that it would cease operations. The company had approximately 100 employees and had a transition team in place since the financial year ended Sept. 30.
Remember when Democrats and the greedy left fought against these Congressional cuts and made harsh statements about how rural Americans were dying because they didn't get weather alerts (HelloInternet?!) and how can they turn out to be even more ignorant and uninformed than they already were? Yes, good times.
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Of course, CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison mourned $1.1 billion funding loss she's like a drama queen. According to her, the work done at the PBC was so special, so sublime, and the right was so terrible that in order to protect its value, the PBC had no choice but to close the organization.
A right-wing brand for the left.
Patricia Harrison, CPB's president and CEO, said in a statement: “When the Administration and Congress eliminated federal funding, our board was faced with a profound responsibility: CPB's final act will be to protect the integrity of the public media system and democratic values by dissolving, rather than allowing the organization to remain protected and vulnerable to additional attacks.”
Joint status report filed with US District Court for the District of Columbia was sharper and drier. What's done is done.
On December 10, 2025, CPB held a meeting of the board of directors at which the directors unanimously voted to formally dissolve the corporation and that management take all necessary steps to dissolve the corporation. Under the District of Columbia Nonprofit Code, a nonprofit corporation is required to provide advance notice to the Office of the Attorney General (“OAG”) of the corporation's voluntary dissolution. D.C. Code § 29-412.02(g). The nonprofit corporation then files a petition for dissolution with the Mayor of the District of Columbia through the Division of Corporations Regulatory Authority (DCRA) after paying off its debts and distributing its assets. As a result, CPB intends to file its Notice of Voluntary Dissolution on or about January 15, 2026, and its Articles of Dissolution on or about January 30, 2026.
With the litigation over and the cancellation of the project removing certainty, my colleague Brad Slager asked an important question: If programming is so important, why not move to a commercial model to pay for it?
One thing that is rarely discussed is the possibility of using a commercial model. Why is it considered that these media outlets should not resort to standard practices of selling advertising time? For all the touted quality of content on the network and the expressed need for PBS to be accessible, one would think that corporate action could be taken to keep the network afloat.
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You'd think so, but it's clear that CPB cared less about keeping the network afloat and more about acting smug and arrogant. It's a shame that outrage and virtue signaling couldn't keep the lights on and pay the CEO's inflated salary.
Very bad, so sad. Not really… Bye, Felicia.
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