GPB Funding Update

In a historic and profoundly challenging move, Congress voted to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting with the approval of the Rescissions Act of 2025 (H.R. 4). This action rescinds $1.1 billion in federal funding that had already been approved by Congress and committed to more than 1,500 public media stations across the country, including GPB.  

While GPB is funded largely through the support of our individual donors and received level state funding from the Georgia General Assembly for educational initiatives and the maintenance of our infrastructure this year, federal support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) was budgeted at $4.3 million in GPB’s budget this year (10%).  

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is a private 501[c]3 corporation created by Congress through the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.  Heretofore, the CPB has allocated their funds from the federal budget to support local, independent public media stations like GPB across the country. With the approval of the Rescissions Act of 2025 last month, previously appropriated funds for the CPB were cut from the federal budget. There was some hope that funding would be restored by the Senate Appropriations Committee in the (FY) 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations Bill, but that did not happen. As a result, the CPB recently announced that they will begin to wind down operations.

Since its inception 65 years ago, GPB has belonged to Georgians who have relied on it to bring them high-quality educational programming, unbiased local news, homegrown sports and entertainment as well as emergency public safety messages. We are not about to stop now. 

Though GPB leadership has been trying to prepare for multiple outcomes in response to the rapidly changing federal funding environment, there is no better time than now for Georgians to show their support and donate to GPB.