ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jerry V. Behimino is a retired Navy civilian and former Navy service member. He is the author of “Starlight in a Dark Sky: Breadcrumbs to the Stars.” Twenty-five years is a long time ...

A groundbreaking children’s television show is set to introduce a new character who is largely non-speaking and communicates with the help of a special speech tablet. “Carl the Collector,” which made ...

PBS Kids is expanding “Super Why’s Comic Book Adventures,” which debuted in 2023 as a series of shorts, into a full half-hour series set to debut in 2026. A spinoff of “Super Why,” which ran on PBS ...

Cuts to NPR, PBS and other public media outlets have been in the news all year long, but now the federal funds have actually run out. With Tuesday marking the end of the federal government’s fiscal ...

PBS's chief executive told public television officials Thursday that it was cutting about 15% of its jobs due to the move by Republicans in Congress to eliminate all federal funding for public ...

Coping with a sudden loss in federal funding, PBS affiliate KSPS in Spokane, Washington, faced a surprise extra hurdle. Many of its contributing members — at one point almost half — lived in Canada, ...

The nonprofit will receive less revenue from its members, which are under pressure to make up for shortfalls of their own. By Benjamin Mullin PBS is cutting its current budget by more than a fifth to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I report on media as well as its intersection with news and culture. In this photo illustration, the NPR (National Public Radio) ...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) will be shutting down after Congress passed a bill that cut funding for the corporation. On July 31, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a ...

PBS has had a lasting impression on my life. Growing up, PBS Kids was a consistent part of my childhood. My earliest memory is watching “Curious George” in the morning as I ate breakfast and waited ...

Donors are turning out to support local stations, but those contributions so far fall well short of the roughly $535 million a year that Congress cut. By Benjamin Mullin The public broadcasting system ...

Earlier this morning, the Senate approved sweeping cuts to public media funding, threatening PBS Kids and with it, one of the few screen-time options built entirely around how children learn and grow.