Viewers Like You, Thank You - PBS Kids and NPR Radio's Signature Federal Funding Partner, Corporation for Public Broadcasting To Shutter Down In January 2026 Due To Trump Administration Funding Cuts Concerns

 Since 1968, PBS has provided some of the greatest children's programming of all time and has joined the ranks of The Walt Disney Company, Paramount, Warner Bros. and Discovery Channel as the big five for the best high quality in educational and preschool children's programming for nearly six decades. But unfortunately, the recent events across public broadcasting and political terms have led to the PBS Kids channel and Public Broadcasting Service facing a new crisis in its catalog of children's classics.

Due to circumstances of a recent Congress bill that is nothing under our control, one of the most important companies in PBS Kids' funding history, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting: A private corporation funded by the American people CPB.org will be fgoing out of business, with the company officially going bankrupt at the end of September and the headquarters officially shutting down at the end of January 2026, with its final CPB funding being headed towards local music discography productions.

The shutdown of the CPB will cost PBS and NPR approx $1.1 billion dollars as the PBS network continues to get punished by President Donald J. Trump in his second term as president of the USA for making a racist offensive Sesame Street parody episode about him back in 2005, without his approval and without NBC's permission, which was the exact same reason for the Trump administration's first attempt to teach PBS a lesson and temperarilly cut PBS funding back in 2017 when Trump first took office from 2017-2021, but alas his first funding cuts attempts backfired and he failed miserably.

The recent PBS funding cuts from the Trump administration for the second time in Trump's 12-year rein as president of the USA which will last until the 2028-2029 election season has unfortunately also caused a fate to two of PBS Kids' most iconic program, with the recent cancellation of Molly of Denali after four seasons and their newest masterpiece Skillsville being another casualty of the one-hit-wonder TV tradition where the show only gets a single season of episodes and never gets renewed again. PBS Kids' upcoming science series Weather Hunters from legendary NBC weatherman Al Roker has also been affected, with the series originally planned to reach television sets on July 7th now being delayed to launch later this year in the autumn window of September 8th, 2025.

Despite the CPB shutting down for good after almost six decades in business with the funding being saved by the late Mister Fred Rogers himself back in 1968/1969 when the very firstPBS Kids preschool TV show, Mister Fred Rogers' Neighborhood was first being transmissioned, PBS Kids' other funders will still be around for many generations to come. The Ready to Learn Grant, No Child Left Behind, The United Statets Department of Education, The National Science Foundation andThe Arthur Vining Davis Foundations will still continue to provide PBS Kids funding and will be remained unchanged.

So rest in peace, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Thank you to everyone who made the corporation possible by providing the best funding budgets and the best high quality children's programming that we've ever had over the last 60 years. You will be dearly missed.

R.I.P. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting
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September 1967-January 2026
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