Corporation for Public Broadcasting
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB; stylized in all lowercase as cpb) is an American non-profit corporation created under the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 to promote and help support public broadcasting in the United States, which continued through 2025. The corporation's mission was to ensure universal access to non-commercial, high-quality educational, cultural, and other content and telecommunications services. CPB received annual funding from Congress from 1967 through 2025. As of 2015, it had distributed more than 70 percent of its funding to more than 1,500 locally owned public radio and television stations, including PBS and NPR stations. In particular, CPB funding was a key part of small and rural public media station budgets. Following the end of U.S. federal government funding, the CPB announced in August 2025 that it would cease operations in January 2026. Most of its staff departed following the end of the fiscal year on September 30; 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.