Corporation for Public Broadcasting
non-profit corporation created by an act of the United States Congress and funded by the United States federal government to promote public broadcasting
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB; stylized in all lowercase as cpb) was an American non-profit corporation created under the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 to promote and help support public broadcasting in the United States. The corporation's mission was to ensure universal access to non-commercial, high-quality educational, cultural, and other content and telecommunications services.
The CPB received annual funding from Congress from 1967 to 2025. By law, more than 70 percent of its annual funding was directly allocated to locally owned public radio and television stations (more than 1,500 as of 2025), including PBS and NPR stations. In particular, CPB funding was a key part of small and rural public media station budgets.
Following the Trump administration's elimination and reallocation of federal funding for the organization, the CPB announced on August 1, 2025, that it would cease operations sometime in January 2026. Most of its staff departed following the end of the fiscal year on September 30, 2025; a small team remained until January to "focus on compliance, fiscal distributions, and resolution of long-term financial obligations." On January 5, 2026, the CPB board of directors voted to dissolve the corporation entirely.
Funding and operations
The CPB's annual budget was composed almost entirely of an annual appropriation from Congress plus interest on those funds. Under the establishing law, no more than 5% of the appropriation would be used for administrative expenses. CPB allocated the funds to content development, community services, and other local station and system needs.
“Corporation for Public Broadcasting” enters the record as non-profit corporation created by an act of the United States Congress and funded by the United States federal government to promote public broadcasting. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Corporation, Public and Broadcasting can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2628754. VIAF identifies the subject as 132508650. The Library of Congress control number is n79032200. 3 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 3 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1967, 2025 and 2026.
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