For decades, NPR and PBS have overcome similar threats. But this year, "the attention and intensity" of the calls to defund public media seem greater, said Michael Isip, the president and CEO of KQED, which operates NPR and PBS stations in the San Francisco Bay Area. NPR and PBS stations are bracing for the fight. After the election, leaders of NPR's biggest member stations circulated a report that warned "it would be unwise to assume that events will play out as they have in the past."
Internally, NPR is preparing for a variety of funding possibilities, including that government money will be clawed back immediately, according to two people briefed on the network's planning. While many Americans know NPR and PBS by popular programs like "Sesame Street" and "All Things Considered," those national organizations are merely the most visible part of a network of local stations crisscrossing the United States - a network that depends on public funding for local news, educational programming and emergency alerts.
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