Federal funding for KMHD and public media is at extreme risk. Here’s what you can do.

Arizona PBS' General Manager on Trump's call to cut funding for public media - Arizona PBS

President Trump formally calls on Congress to pull about $1.1 billion in previously approved funding for public media.

NPR and PBS need to play ball for federal funding

Public media stations across the country are using their airwaves to urge listeners and viewers to write to their senators to hold off the impending end to federal funds for the systems. It’s a practical strategy, but a limited and nearsighted one. It’s correct that if even a handful of Republican senators resist the proposed White House cuts to the system, then the administration’s $9.4 billion budget recissions legislation (with a vote deadlin…

Federal funding for KMHD and public media is at extreme risk. Here’s what you can do.

KMHD Jazz Radio is operated by OPB. Through this relationship, it receives federal funding – funding that has enabled KMHD to grow its public service mission and to preserve the sound of jazz on the radio for Portland, the Pacific Northwest and the world at large. That critical funding is now under severe threat. Federal dollars represent roughly $5 million per year for OPB and support all the programs and services it provides – including KMHD. …