Listen "S5E43 | Public Broadcasting History - Why Conservatives Dislike PBS & NPR "
Episode Synopsis
Public broadcast federal funding has been completely cut. Our federal government will no longer fund public broadcasting. Pres. Trump has ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to cease any funding to PBS or NPR. In addition, he signed Congressional bill that clawed back already approved CPB funding. 🚩Support My Program🚩In this interview: ►What defines public broadcasting? ►Radio's evolution from a public to commercial medium►Educational broadcasting or public broadcasting? ►Nonprofit vs. noncommercial►How is public broadcasting funded? ►How is Sputnik relevant to public broadcast? ►Why the South liked public broadcast►NAACP and public broadcast ►How did the Carnegie Corp. impact public broadcast? ►Why don't conservatives like public broadcast? ►Pres. Johnson, Nixon and Reagan and public broadcast 🚩About My 185th Guest Scholars:Dr. Allison Perlman is a professor of film and media studies in the School of Humanities at University of California, Irvine. Her research interests include history of broadcasting, American social movements, media law and policy, media activism, popular memory. Her publications include the following books: Flow TV: Television in the Age of Convergent Media, and Public Interests: Media Advocacy and Struggles Over US Television, a book that we discuss in this interview. It's also the winner of the Outstanding Book Award by the International Communication Association. 🚩Adel Aalihost & producer☑️Where to find my program:Home:https://historybehindnews.com Spotify:🎧https://bit.ly/HbN-Podcast-Spotify Apple:🎧https://bit.ly/HbN-Podcast-Apple YouTube:▶️https://bit.ly/HbN-YT-Sub Adel on Facebook and X.com🚩Support My Program: Click here and join our other supporters of the History Behind News podcast. Thank you. 🎵 attribution, links and license for thetheme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Scholars in Your Inbox? More than 200 scholar interviews and counting! So don't miss HbN guest scholars’ weekly takes on the history behind our news.
More episodes of the podcast History Behind News Program
US-Brazilian Relations - A History | S5E47
19/09/2025
S5E46 | Fashion In America - A History
10/09/2025
S5E40 | Who is Putin? And what does he want?
15/08/2025