Every so often across my 21 years as a TV critic at this paper, I have been moved to defend public broadcasting against regular right-wing attempts to defund it. The difference now — well ...

The president of PBS on Tuesday warned that the cuts President Trump proposed to the public broadcaster’s budget would have a major negative impact on the network. “The effort underway to get ...

Those words were spoken in 1969 by Fred Rogers during a testimony before the U.S. Senate to defend funding for Public Broadcasting. Nearly 56 years later, PBS CEO Paula Kerger echoed Rogers ...

Supporters of public broadcasting outlets PBS and NPR should start pondering how much demand there really is for the content those entities produce. If there is sufficient demand, funding ...

(CNN) — America’s two biggest public broadcasters, PBS and NPR, are facing an up-or-down vote over their federal funding for the first time in decades. The Trump administration sees it as a ...

By Benjamin Mullin I cover the media. There is no reason, Republicans say, for the government to fund NPR and PBS. Last week, G.O.P. members of Congress, led by Marjorie Taylor Greene, flayed the ...

For most of its 54 years of existence, public broadcasting has been a target of conservatives who saw it as a political threat. The federal aid it receives is once again under fire on Capitol Hill.

The union representing journalists at Cascade PBS is ramping up its organizing activities in an effort to draw attention to a stalemate in contract negotiations that began in July 2024. The bargaining ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Later tonight (March 30), the season premiere of Call the Midwife airs on PBS. If you’re one of the many people whose Sunday nights are reserved for HBO’s The ...

Monday on the News Hour, Pope Francis passes away at age 88, leaving behind a legacy of change and a reshaped Catholic Church. The defense secretary faces mounting calls to resign after new ...