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Utah’s public radio stations bet on new directions and old ideals after federal funding cuts.
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On January 5, the directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced that the congressionally mandated nonprofit would be dissolved. Created in 1967 to oversee federal investments in public broadcasting on television and radio, the CPB functioned independently of the government but was funded like a government appendage.
This structure made the agency a target of anti-public media attacks—dating back to its inception—and its dissolution further punctuated what had been accomplished with the passage of the Rescissions Act of 2025 in July.
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