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Ways to Take Action
Federal funding ensures that your local public radio and TV stations can continue to give you access to essential educational, local, and cultural programming; trustworthy, in-depth news; and emergency and community-based services. Federal legislation threatens to restrict and eliminate public media funding, endangering the future of your local public radio and TV stations. Here are three things you can do today to keep public media strong.
Urge Congress: Protect Public Media Funding
Public media faces an uncertain future. With the Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations process approaching, growing calls to defund public media and new threats emerging, now is a critical time to act.
Protect Local Public Media: Sign the Petition
We’re collecting signatures to show Congress that the American people strongly support public media funding – and are ready to oppose any legislation that would jeopardize local public media stations.
Call Congress: Protect Public Media Funding
We must urge Congress to protect and sustain the essential funding that keeps public media strong and accessible for all.
PBS and member stations serve communities in ways you might not realize.
Did You Know?
Protect My Public Media (PMPM) is an action network of Americans who advocate for federal public media funding.
Public media reaches over 98% of Americans, providing free over-the-air programs and services to virtually every community in the U.S.
Without federal funding many stations would cease to exist, meaning the end to critical local news, culture, history, and emergency communications.
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Urge Congress: Save Public Media Funding
The White House is planning to release a proposal that would claw back already approved public media funding. If Congress agrees, your local stations could lose critical support – immediately.
For about $1.60 per person each year, more than 1,500 locally operated public radio and television stations deliver a wealth of trusted local journalism, researched-based educational children’s media resources and learning experiences, cultural enrichment, and crucial alerts and warnings to virtually every corner of our country.
Together, we can ensure that public media remains a vibrant and vital public service for Americans of all ages.
Save your local stations. Urge your lawmakers to oppose the rescissions package.
Email your Members of Congress now.
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