The head of a public TV advocacy group this week warned that threats to cut funding to public broadcasters could impact public safety. In an address to the annual meeting of America’s Public ...

Public television had a good thing going while it lasted. Now it’s losing its taxpayer-funded safety net, and all bets are off. PBS once flew above the pedestrian fray of commercial television, ...

Public television stations will be “forced to make hard decisions in the weeks and months ahead,” PBS CEO Paula Kerger said Thursday, after lawmakers advanced a bill that cancels all the federal ...

Some -- if not many -- of PBS's approximately 350 local station affiliates operate on a shoestring, so for them, losing CPB's vital source of funding might mean the difference between life and death.

Alabama Public Television and public media are facing multiple serious threats. Alabama Public Television is powered by your support and federal funding, but public media is facing multiple serious ...

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Each day, PBS programming fills the airwaves of Alabama Public Television with shows such as “Sesame Street,” “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood,” “Antiques Roadshow” and “PBS ...

A star-studded cast honors 55 remarkable years of public television in this historic live telethon. An all-star cast will honor 55 remarkable years of public television, including Music Director ...

In May, 1961, Alabama Public Television celebrated its 6th birthday as the nation’s first educational television network. Across the country, public television signals were beginning to blink on in ...

Alabama Public Television leaders laid off 15% of its employees after the recent federal funding cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The cuts claimed half of the documentary production ...

Suddenly, the possibility of losing public broadcasting forever feels very real. The announcement in August 1 by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that it will soon cease to exist came from a ...