CAR Again Pushes for FCC Inquiry Into PBS and NPR Stations
The FCC should open an inquiry on the financial viability of PBS and NPR stations in the wake of the end of federal funding, said the Center for American Rights in an email to acting Media Bureau Chief Erin Boone,…
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according to an ex parte filing Friday in docket 25-322. The FCC should ask “PBS and NPR and their affiliated stations to be transparent, honest, and proactive about this new landscape.” The email pointed to public broadcasting stations that have announced impending closure or plans to end their PBS affiliations (see 2512120040). CAR first pushed for an inquiry into PBS and NPR stations in a filing last month (see 2512110052). America’s Public Television Stations has said such a proceeding would “needlessly divert time and resources away from local public television stations’ public service to their local communities.”