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Stations in small and remote communities get as much as 40% of their funding from the CPB, Ferro said, making it difficult for them to stay on the air without the federal dollars.

Gonzalez, who wrote the blueprint for defunding the CPB for Project 2025, derides the content that NPR and PBS present – lineups that include public television's massive historical docuseries by Ken Burns, “NOVA” science documentaries and “Nature” features — as “noneducational.”

About 1% comes directly from federal sources, it says, while PBS receives roughly 16% of its funds from the CPB.

The CPB is not a government organization but a private, nonprofit corporation created by Congress in the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.

Its mission statement reads, in part, "CPB does not produce programming and does not own, operate or control any public broadcasting stations. Additionally, CPB, PBS, and NPR are independent of each other and of local public television and radio stations."