Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Corporation for Public Broadcasting

logo used since September 4, 2000
Company type	Private, non-profit[1][2]
Industry	Television Radio
Founded	November 7, 1967; 57 years ago (1967-11-07)
Headquarters	Washington, D.C. , U.S.
Area served	United States
Key people	Patricia Harrison (president & CEO)
Revenue	582,013,746 United States dollar (2023)
Total assets	330,483,332 United States dollar (2023)
Number of employees	≈100 (2019)[3]
Website	www.cpb.org

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB; stylized in all lowercase as cpb) is an American non-profit corporation created in 1967 to promote and help support public broadcasting.^[4] The corporation's mission is to ensure universal access to non-commercial, high-quality content and telecommunications services. It received funding from Congress and distributed more than 70 percent of its funding to more than 1,500 locally owned public radio and television stations,^[5] including Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR) stations. In particular, CPB funding was a key part of small and rural public media station budgets.^[6]

The CPB has had its congressional funding threatened a number of times, mostly by Republicans who alleged a liberal bias in PBS and NPR.^[7] In July 2025, the Rescissions Act of 2025 removed CPB's federal funding. On August 1, 2025, the CPB announced plans to shut down by the end of January 2026.