From a statement: “The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s… bill, which excludes funding for CPB for the first time in more than five decades.”
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