PBS weekend newscasts shut down due to funding cuts, replaced by single-topic programs
DAVID BAUDER
Associated Press
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PBS Kids show characters including the title character from "Arthur" decorate boxes at the Arizona PBS offices in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication on May 2 in Phoenix.
Katie Oyan, Associated Press
A stuffed Cookie Monster is seated in a control room at the Arizona PBS offices at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication on May 2 in Phoenix.
Katie Oyan, Associated Press
Paula Kerger, President and CEO at PBS, speaks at the executive session during the PBS Winter TCA Press Tour at The Langham Huntington on Jan. 10, 2020, in Pasadena, Calif.
PBS will premiere separate programs on science and foreign affairs next weekend after shutting the doors on its Saturday and Sunday breaking newscasts because of the federal government's cut of $1.1 billion in funding to public broadcasting.
“Decades of content, documentary series, things that have real value to society could end up in a dumpster, for all I know,” said Jeff Hughes,…
PBS Kids show characters including the title character from "Arthur" decorate boxes at the Arizona PBS offices in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication on May 2 in Phoenix.
A stuffed Cookie Monster is seated in a control room at the Arizona PBS offices at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication on May 2 in Phoenix.
Paula Kerger, President and CEO at PBS, speaks at the executive session during the PBS Winter TCA Press Tour at The Langham Huntington on Jan. 10, 2020, in Pasadena, Calif.
