Valley PBS and Valley Public Radio impacted after House passes public broadcasting cuts

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Late Thursday, House Republicans voted to chopped backmost $9 cardinal successful Congressional-approved funding, including $1.1 cardinal successful cuts to the Corporation of Public Broadcasting.

The fiscal ripple effects successful the hundreds of thousands of dollars for section stations, Valley Public Radio and Valley PBS.

Valley PBS is conscionable making its instrumentality to HD broadcasting aft its operation and transmitter were deed by a lightning onslaught connected Bear Mountain a twelvemonth ago.

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"Today was expected to beryllium a time of solemnisation for america and for this to hap astir precisely connected the aforesaid day, it truly was a punch successful the stomach," Valley PBS president and CEO Robert Mollison said.

Valley PBS receives astir 25% of its backing from the CPB. That's $900,000 that could endanger section programming and fashionable children's contented similar Sesame Street.

"It's a presumption that you tin enactment your kid successful beforehand of a tv acceptable and cognize 100% that they're watching wholesome programming," Mollison said.

Valley PBS is receiving letters of enactment from some adults and kids, similar this 12-year-old spectator who writes, 'I'm truthful gladsome that you made my puerility special.'

The cuts besides widen to National Public Radio stations, including Valley Public Radio, an NPR subordinate presumption that serves 80,000 play listeners from Atwater to Bakersfield.

Beginning October 1, KVPR volition not person immoderate aboriginal national funding. The interaction sums up to astir $175,000.

"The ballot successful Congress lone deepens our committedness to service the Valley," KVPR president Joe Moore said.

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"Alaska, the agrarian Midwest, the godforsaken southwest, the heavy south, wherever national enactment has made up 30, 40, 50 % of their budget," Moore said.

He says those alerts aren't going distant present locally due to the fact that KVPR isn't going away.

"I perceive from radical who say, 'I learned to talk English by listening to your station,'" Moore said. "We've been present for 47 years, rooted present successful Fresno and the Central Valley and we're not going anywhere."

Both Valley PBS and Valley Public Radio said they volition re-evaluate their programming and sum implicit the adjacent weeks and months.

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