Joe Biden’s $6 trillion budget plan, released on Friday, reverses a policy of his predecessor in that increases, rather than decreases, the federal outlay for the arts and public broadcasting.
For four years, President Donald Trump’s White House proposed federal budgets that zeroed out funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. That never happened, as Congress sets appropriations, and the agencies survived. But it made for a frenzied period of lobbying on Capitol Hill by arts advocates and other groups to make sure that the funding would remain in place.
Biden’s budget proposes $201 million to the National Endowment for the Arts, up from $167.5 million in the current fiscal year. An additional $135 million was provided as part of the American Rescue Plan to help arts agencies trying to recover from the revenue downturn due to the pandemic.
For four years, President Donald Trump’s White House proposed federal budgets that zeroed out funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. That never happened, as Congress sets appropriations, and the agencies survived. But it made for a frenzied period of lobbying on Capitol Hill by arts advocates and other groups to make sure that the funding would remain in place.
Biden’s budget proposes $201 million to the National Endowment for the Arts, up from $167.5 million in the current fiscal year. An additional $135 million was provided as part of the American Rescue Plan to help arts agencies trying to recover from the revenue downturn due to the pandemic.
- 5/28/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
President Donald Trump’s proposed new budget again calls for all but eliminating funding for public media, but it’s highly unlikely that will happen.
This is the fourth year in a row the White House has called for slashing funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides funding to public TV stations, PBS and NPR. Past proposals have been stopped in Congress, which sets budget levels for federal agencies. Even when Republicans held both chambers of Congress, lawmakers kept public media funding at its current level, roughly $445 million.
The White House’s proposed Fiscal Year 2021 budget would scale back discretionary funding across the board while increasing military spending. The amount allocated for public media would be reduced to just $30 million. Public media advocates say that the Cpb funding is especially essential for small- and medium- sized stations, the loss of which would threaten the structure of the PBS network.
This is the fourth year in a row the White House has called for slashing funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides funding to public TV stations, PBS and NPR. Past proposals have been stopped in Congress, which sets budget levels for federal agencies. Even when Republicans held both chambers of Congress, lawmakers kept public media funding at its current level, roughly $445 million.
The White House’s proposed Fiscal Year 2021 budget would scale back discretionary funding across the board while increasing military spending. The amount allocated for public media would be reduced to just $30 million. Public media advocates say that the Cpb funding is especially essential for small- and medium- sized stations, the loss of which would threaten the structure of the PBS network.
- 2/10/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Jimmy Fallon is having a political moment.
The Tonight Show host began his opening monologue Monday addressing the rally that left three dead and several injured in Charlottesville, Virginia, calling what occurred “disgusting” and saying it was his “responsibility to stand up against intolerance and extremism as a human being.”
“I was sick to my stomach,” Fallon, 42, said of watching the rally and the protests that followed on the news.
“My daughters were in the next room playing and I’m thinking, ‘How can I explain to them that there is so much hatred in this world?’ ” he continued, talking...
The Tonight Show host began his opening monologue Monday addressing the rally that left three dead and several injured in Charlottesville, Virginia, calling what occurred “disgusting” and saying it was his “responsibility to stand up against intolerance and extremism as a human being.”
“I was sick to my stomach,” Fallon, 42, said of watching the rally and the protests that followed on the news.
“My daughters were in the next room playing and I’m thinking, ‘How can I explain to them that there is so much hatred in this world?’ ” he continued, talking...
- 8/15/2017
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
Updated with video: Donald Trump’s ban on transgender troops, announced via Twitter, took a beating on Wednesday’s late-night TV; each show handled it in its own way. During the Tonight Show‘s opening monologue, Jimmy Fallon gave his platform to transgender comedian Patti Harrison, asking her how the transgender community is reacting to the news Potus was kicking them out of the military. “I was shocked, because I assumed he already did that,” Harrison said of her reax to…...
- 7/27/2017
- Deadline TV
“The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” has a response for President Donald Trump’s controversial military ban. On Wednesday, Trump announced transgender citizens were not allowed to serve in the country’s armed forces. As a result, Fallon and company have responded to the ban with an important video. Transgender comedian and “Tonight Show” correspondent Patti Harrison […]...
- 7/27/2017
- by Jordan Appugliesi
- ET Canada
As late-night TV hosts prepares to offer their takes on President Donald Trump's Twitter proclamation that he'd be banning transgender citizens from serving in the country's armed forces, Jimmy Fallon is ceding the spotlight to make room for a comedian from the transgender community to speak her mind. During his monologue on tonight's episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the host will welcome transgender comedian and Tonight Show correspondent Patti Harrison to get her thoughts on how the community is reacting to the news. "As a trans person, it's hard to articulate exactly how I feel, but I guess if I had to describe it, I'd say, 'Donald, you're so stupid. You are so stupid....
- 7/27/2017
- E! Online
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting may have a documentary problem.
At a House subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, Cpb president/CEO Patricia Harrison heard mostly support from Congressional members on attendance. With House critics of funding for public broadcasting mostly absent, the focus was on how public radio and TV stations support education, veteran, health and safety issues across the country – particularly rural areas.
One Congressperson even asked Harrison how the Cpb would allocate its funds if its annual appropriation was doubled from its current level ($445 million annually). The hearing came just weeks after Donald Trump’s proposed budget suggested a complete elimination of Cpb funding.
Read More: PBS Will Likely Survive, But Trump’s Proposal Hits Stations Servicing His Own Rural Supporters the Hardest
The hearing was mostly devoid of fireworks, except when Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) took issue with a handful of recent documentary titles, such as “Baby Mama High,...
At a House subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, Cpb president/CEO Patricia Harrison heard mostly support from Congressional members on attendance. With House critics of funding for public broadcasting mostly absent, the focus was on how public radio and TV stations support education, veteran, health and safety issues across the country – particularly rural areas.
One Congressperson even asked Harrison how the Cpb would allocate its funds if its annual appropriation was doubled from its current level ($445 million annually). The hearing came just weeks after Donald Trump’s proposed budget suggested a complete elimination of Cpb funding.
Read More: PBS Will Likely Survive, But Trump’s Proposal Hits Stations Servicing His Own Rural Supporters the Hardest
The hearing was mostly devoid of fireworks, except when Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) took issue with a handful of recent documentary titles, such as “Baby Mama High,...
- 3/29/2017
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which controls NPR, declared public media as “one of America’s best investments” in response to President Trump’s first budget proposal that would eliminate funding. “There is no viable substitute for federal funding that ensures Americans have universal access to public media’s educational and informational programming and services,” president and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (Cpb) Patricia Harrison said in a statement. Harrison continued: “The elimination of federal funding to Cpb would initially devastate and ultimately destroy public media’s role in early childhood education, public safety, connecting citizens to our history,...
- 3/16/2017
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (Cpb) is pleased to congratulate Frontline executive producer David Fanning on receiving the National Academy of Arts and Sciences Lifetime Achievement Award. The award, which will be presented by the National Academy of Arts and Sciences tonight at the 34th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards in New York City, is given in recognition of a distinguished individual who has made a profound and long-term contribution to excellence in television. From the press release “In his three decades at the helm of Frontline, David Fanning has produced more than great filmmaking and journalism,” said Patricia Harrison, president and CEO of Cpb. “His commitment to taking on the important issues of the day, regardless of...
- 10/1/2013
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
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