Austin Fuller

1 week ago | current.org | Austin Fuller

Miami’s South Florida Public Media Group is working to expand public media in the broader region with a deal to acquire an FM radio station and operate it as a community licensee. SFPMG, the management company for joint licensee WLRN, filed an asset purchase agreement with the FCC June 6 to acquire West Palm Beach’s The Flame 104.7, a commercial station, from JDD Radio for $6.45 million. West Palm Beach is roughly 70 miles north of Miami.

2 weeks ago | current.org | Austin Fuller

The fight to preserve public media’s federal support has turned to the Senate following Thursday’s House vote to rescind nearly $1.1 billion in CPB funding. Meanwhile, a House Republican said he will keep working to make the case for public media’s federal appropriation. Rep. Mark Amodei (R-Nevada), a co-chair of the Public Broadcasting Caucus, was one of four Republicans who voted against the rescission bill targeting CPB and foreign aid programs.

2 weeks ago | current.org | Austin Fuller

The House approved the Trump administration’s $9.4 billion rescission package that includes CPB funding, advancing the measure to the Senate. The package passed 214-212, with four Republicans voting against it. President Trump proposed clawing back $535 million in CPB’s forward-funded appropriations for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 as part of the package. The rescissions now need a simple majority in the Senate, not the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster.

2 weeks ago | current.org | Austin Fuller

Members of Congress, including the bipartisan co-chairs of the Public Broadcasting Caucus and Senate Democrats, are pushing back on the proposed rescission of CPB funding. President Trump has proposed clawing back $535 million in CPB’s forward-funded appropriations for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 as part of a broader $9.4 billion rescission package. The Rescissions Act of 2025 is working its way through the House this week. Rep. Mark Amodei (R-Nevada) and Rep.

2 weeks ago | current.org | Austin Fuller

Indiana’s public stations are adapting to the sudden loss of state funding through a combination of fiscal belt-tightening and backend collaborations. The sudden elimination of $3.675 million in state funding, approved in April during the last hours of the General Assembly’s budget deliberations, has already forced at least one station to reduce staff.