With PBS and NPR besieged by the political right, with C-SPAN’s funding via cable and satellite fees strafed by cord cutting, higher-minded alternatives have been hit by hard times.

The House voted in favor of President Trump's "rescission" bill Thursday, a measure that would claw back nearly $1.1 billion in funding already approved for PBS and NPR.

House Republicans Vote to Slash $1.1 Billion in PBS, NPR Funds President Trump moves a step closer to clawing back tax dollars previously earmarked for public broadcasters, who he has called ...

NPR and PBS are a Radical Left Disaster, and 1000% against the Republican Party!” Public broadcasting has found itself in the crosshairs many times before, as the elimination of funding has been ...

Brian Zidian Jr. stayed up until 2 a.m. drafting an email to PBS, asking how he could help the network amid threats to its federal funding. "I want PBS to be around forever,” the 21-year-old wrote.

Predictably, the usual suspects staged demonstrations and NPR, PBS and Democrats have counterattacked with lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of Trump’s order.

Elmo is still out of work -- and back on a new site, Elmo Open to Work, soliciting PBS donations amid Trump's attempt to cut public media funding.

The Trump administration formally requested a rescission of funds for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, seeking to halt federal funding to PBS and NPR.

The proposal, sent to lawmakers by White House budget director and key policy architect Russell Vought, asks Congress to “rescind,” or repeal, $8.3 billion in foreign aid and more than $1 ...

A group of congressional Republicans accused PBS on Monday of “grooming” children after “Sesame Street,” one of the nonprofit TV network’s flagship programs, shared a social media … ...

PBS and Lakeland PBS in rural Minnesota are suing President Trump over his executive order demanding that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting kill all funding for the public television network.

NPR and PBS receive about $500 million annually through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private, publicly funded nonprofit created by President Lyndon B. Johnson.