#corporation-for-public-broadcasting

#corporation-for-public-broadcasting

NPR asked a federal judge to block the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from awarding a $57.9 million grant to a new consortium of public media institutions to operate the satellite that connects the public radio system for the next five years. NPR's submission, filed Friday afternoon, gives insight into the behind-the-scenes tensions within public media this year as Congressional Republicans successfully moved, at President Trump's insistence to strip public broadcasting of all funding they had already approved for the next two years.