During the early hours of Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives definitively approved President Donald Trump’s request to cut $9 billion from both PBS, which airs the popular show Sesame Street and other programs,

Cuts to PBS funding could change kids’ media forever, as families opt for short-form video and online series optimized for attention.

Roughly $1.1 billion of the targeted cut would defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the non-profit that supports NPR and PBS.

FAILED APPEAL: One local conservative guest columnist appealed to Congress to save funding for public broadcasting. Oklahoma's statewide PBS station, OETA, reinforced that we are all fellow Americans and patriots before we are members of a particular partisan club, Garrett T. King wrote in May.

Nixon was so “disturbed” that PBS had started a new national news show with the hosts Robert MacNeil and Sander Vanocur — someone on his enemies list — that he requested “all funds for public broadcasting be cut immediately,” White House memos released years later showed.

Mollison says that the educational programming PBS provides to children through shows is going to be greatly affected. Valley PBS serves nine counties, and the situation is dire. 25% of their budget relies on this funding which totals to $900,000 a year.

Taxpayers will no longer have to pay for the toxic, biased propaganda that federally funded media have been poisoning America with for the last 60 years. The argument for government-run media has always been dubious at best; it’s what dictators use to control and discipline the public.

Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski and Maine’s Susan Collins joined Senate Democrats in opposition to Republican cuts to organizations like PBS and NPR, and the smaller stations that they fund. While PBS and NPR would still continue at the national level, the cuts would likely devastate those local stations that rely on them.

Looming federal funding cuts for PBS put in jeopardy some of the most-used educational videos and games shown to help children improve in literacy and other social skills. The cuts, part of

Sesame Workshop made a big announcement — "Sesame Street" is heading to stream new seasons and older episodes on Netflix. Here's what it means for HBO and the Public Broadcasting stations. The ...

Once again, Jon Stewart had a “tremendous show planned for you - well-designed, articulate,” but the tidal wave of current events would not let that slide. It was “a truly illuminating dive into the overlooked role of the commodities markets in trade deficit accounting,