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05/19/2025

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“Sesame Street” inked a new streaming deal with Netflix, which will carry the show beginning with Season 56 later this year.

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Found in: documentary / HBO / hbo max / Netflix / PBS / Sesame Street
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05/06/2025

Senate Commerce Addresses Funding Cuts to PBS, NPR

President Trump’s Executive Order to halt federal funding for PBS and NPR found its way into Tuesday’s Senate Commerce streaming hearing.

By Cablefax Staff

Found in: John Bergmayer / NPR / PBS / Public Knowledge / Senate Commerce
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04/15/2025

Trump Wants $1.1B Slashed from Public Media

News broke late Monday that the White House has drafted a recission package that includes taking back $1.1 billion in federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

By Cablefax Staff

Found in: Donald Trump / NPR / PBS / America's Public Television Stations / Corporation for Public Broadcasting
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02/20/2025

Diversity Pushback: Group Asks FCC to Probe Paramount DEI in Merger Review

The same conservative group that has filed a news distortion complaint against a CBS “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris is now pointing its fingers at Paramount Global’s DEI policy.

By Amy Maclean

Found in: 60 Minutes / CBS / Skydance / Donald Trump / Center for American Rights / Jessica Rosenworcel / New Street Research / Brendan Carr / Comcast NBCUniversal / PBS / Blair Levin / Kamala Harris / FCC / Paramount Global / Comcast
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02/19/2025

Effros: Fragmentation and Chaos

Unlike what’s going on at the national level, with extraordinary consolidation and random exercise of power creating the angst, at the local, individual TV viewer’s level it’s the fragmentation of the marketplace that’s creating the problem.

By Steve Effros

Found in: FCC / Roku / Prime Video / Effros / PBS / tv guide / Google TV
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02/12/2025

Diversity Probe: Why Comcast and What’s Next?

FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks is citing Brendan Carr’s own words to make an argument against him probing Comcast’s DEI actions.

By Amy Maclean

Found in: New Street Research / NPR / Brendan Carr / PBS / Geoffrey Starks / Blair Levin / Fox Corp / FCC / NewsGuard / Comcast / Warner Bros Discovery / Disney / TheDove Media / NBCUniversal / Pacific Legal Foundation

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