About 70 percent of CPB’s funding goes to stations across the country, including Nebraska Public Media (NPM), which now stands to lose roughly 16 percent of its operating budget. The funding was already awarded before the passage of a rescission bill backed by former President Donald Trump.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced Friday that it will begin a "wind-down of its operations" and cut a majority of its jobs by the end of September following Congress' vote earlier this month to cut $1.1 billion in its federal funding.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced Friday that it will begin shutting down, weeks after Congress canceled previously approved funding for the nation's steward of public media access.