PBS and the Arkansas Educational Television Commission disagreed in dueling correspondences shared with Current about the events leading up to the commission’s decision last month to end its PBS ...

The nonprofit institution that provided significant funding for PBS and NPR is disbanding after nearly 60 years in operation. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting — created by Congress in 1967 — ...

Arkansas’ decision to sever ties with the Public Broadcasting Service “came as a shock to us,” a PBS executive wrote in an email Wednesday to Woody Freeman, chairman of the Arkansas Educational ...

Seekers of knowledge, lovers of wholesome TV programming: The end is upon us. According to a new report from KNWA/KFTA (via The Hill), Arkansas will become the first state to end its affiliation with ...

Arkansas has become the first state to end its affiliation with PBS following cuts to public television by the Trump administration, citing an unaffordable multi-million annual fee for the national ...

CONWAY, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Arkansas’ statewide public television network will end its affiliation with PBS starting in July 2026, the Arkansas Educational Television Commission announced this week.

Arkansas is set to become the first state to sever ties with PBS, after the commission that oversees public television in the state voted to end its contract with the broadcast company. The ...