Created in 1967 -- Corporation for Public Broadcasting votes to shut itself down

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Monday Jan. 5, 2026

Less than a year after Congress

(both houses) and Trump-Vance

adminstration managed together

to defund_ the Corporation created

by law and signed by LBJ,

the BOARD of

CPB (Corporation for

Public Broadcasting :

PBS & NPR)

will close the organization

after 58 years . . .

70% of the CPB funding

went directly to local

TV & Public radio stations.

5 Jan. 2026