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Parents need to know that PBS KIDS Video is an educational app for kids to watch a variety of clips from more than a dozen PBS Kids shows. The app allows parents to share video clips with friends ...
The opinions expressed below are Jon Keller's, not those of WBZ, CBS News or Paramount Global. For most of its 54 years of existence, public broadcasting has been a target of conservatives who saw ...
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland — Maybe it’s not that difficult being green. The legendary Muppet Kermit the Frog will give the commencement address to graduating students at the University of Maryland ...
President Donald Trump called for PBS and NPR to be defunded Wednesday, resuming attacks against public media as Republicans echoed the president’s wishes and accused the nonprofit media outlets ...
NPR and PBS have long faced Republican claims of political bias, and Trump has repeatedly called for them to be defunded. In fact, every Republican administration except Gerald Ford’s has tried ...
The iconic green frog, and the rest of the Muppets, were created by Jim Henson, who graduated from UMD in 1960. According to the university, Kermit is an environmental advocate, a Peabody Award ...
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — NPR and PBS are the next targets for federal budget cuts. The Federal Communications Commission launched a probe into the public broadcasters. Representative Marjorie ...
The House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing came as Republicans and allies of President Trump have assailed public media organizations NPR and PBS as too liberal in news ...
New polling from Pew found 24 percent of surveyed Americans say the U.S. government should not continue to send taxpayer dollars to NPR and PBS, while a larger slice, 43 percent, say federal ...
Democrats had some bizarre defenses for NPR and PBS in Wednesday’s House DOGE Subcommittee, with some representatives invoking characters from Sesame Street and The Muppets to attack Republican ...
WASHINGTON (TNND) — The two biggest public broadcasters in the U.S. could be on the chopping block for federal funding, with Congressional Republicans accusing NPR and PBS of bias and ...
Their testimony is part of a hearing named "Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the heads of NPR and PBS Accountable" where leaders will be asked to explain why "they should continue to be funded by ...