TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay’s public radio and television stations are looking at how they’ll move forward without the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
After Congress voted to defund its operations over the summer, the 58-year-old organization’s board voted to dissolve the CPB this week.
“We absolutely feel the fact that CPB has closed,” WEDU-PBS President and CEO Paul Grove said. “They were kind of the glue to the system to try to keep all the stations with grants and making sure that we had the opportunity to find additional dollars for our national programming.”…