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PBS Needs More Than “Viewers Like You.”

 

President Trump’s recent executive order to defund public media has made PBS’s tagline …and with support from viewers like you no longer enough. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting stands to lose $1.1 billion in funding. This places many of the 350 or so PBS stations and 1,500 public media stations across the country at risk of ending programming that prepares young people for school and entertains, educates, and enriches the lives of 36 million viewers a month and more than 53 million viewers on its digital sites and YouTube.

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#CPB funding makes up about 13 percent of local public media stations, most located in smaller markets with fewer resources to produce their own programming.

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Those stations rely on independent producers to fully fund their own projects and pay into a ‘presenting’ PBS station such as WTTW, in Chicago; WGBH, in Boston; and KQED, in San Francisco. The station then distributes the content nationally through American Public Television (APT) or the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA).

 

​‘Presenting station’ fees also help pay salaries. When I produce Pedal America or someone else’s content, I get the satisfaction of putting people to work and educating the public.

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Independent producers who pay presenting PBS stations to distribute high quality content need brands like you, donors like you, and viewers like you more than any other time in recent history of public media.

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Your support helps to sustain PBS.

 

For the 22nd consecutive year, “PBS and its member stations are ranked #1 in public trust.” 

Support independent producers and their programs created for Public Television!

 

Thank you!