APTS Commends Senate Appropriations Committee For Providing Level Funding For Public Broadcasting

America's Public Television Stations are grateful to the Senate Appropriations Committee for providing level funding of $445 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) for Fiscal Year 2021 and $20 million in FY 2019 for an annual interconnection and infrastructure account, which is the backbone of the public broadcasting system, providing local stations with national programming, connecting stations with each other, and creating efficiencies for our system. The broad support for this funding among both Republican and Democratic members of the committee, where the bill passed on a vote of 30-1, mirrors the support the American people have consistently given to our work in communities throughout the country.