The harsh reality for universities and state legislatures that own licenses of public media outlets

It did not take long for the bad news to start. By now, it has snowballed.

In the few weeks since the United States Senate voted to defund public media, we’ve seen scores of employees of local public media stations lose their jobs. We’ve watched in disbelief the dismantling of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which for decades distributed federal funds to local broadcasters and national content distributors like the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio.

Now the snowball is rolling toward a group of stations that have often had tenuous relationships with the bodies that control the bulk of their non-CPB income: Universities and state legislatures that own licenses of public media outlets.

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