New Jersey PBS, set to shut down on June 30, will shutter its Newark studio at the end of this week, with NJ Spotlight News with Brianna Vannozzi moving to a remote format for the final two months.
A spokesperson for The WNET Group, Kellie Castruita Specter, told the New Jersey Globe that the studio lease is up on June 30.
It’s not immediately clear what will happen to the equipment in the studio. Recent upgrades were funded by taxpayers from 2021 to 2024, but last year’s budget cut funding from the state entirely. That followed the Trump administration’s decision to cancel funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funded WNET, the parent company of THIRTEEN, the PBS New York affiliate…