A sign for the Public Broadcasting Service, or PBS, is seen on its building headquarters on Feb. 18, 2025, in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
Arkansas PBS will renew its membership with its parent company for another year starting Tuesday, its board of commissioners agreed at a special meeting Monday after debating whether to save $2.3 million in national dues in the face of potential federal funding cuts.
The statewide public media network would lose $2.5 million in programming and operational funds if President Donald Trump’s desired cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting come to fruition, interim executive director Sajni Kumpuris told the commission earlier this month. She said Monday that the $2.5 million CPB grant Arkansas PBS receives accounts for 51% of the network’s operating expense funding.
Fiscal year 2026 begins Tuesday, and PBS affiliate stations renew their memberships and pay their dues at the turn of the fiscal year…