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Alaska Some Republicans Want to Reverse the GOP Cuts to Rural and Tribal Radio Stations

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Some Republicans want to reverse GOP cuts to rural and tribal radio stations

Sens. Mike Rounds and Dan Sullivan are pushing to keep federal funds flowing to Native stations.
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One of the stations thats affected to the funding of the rural and tribal stations is located in Alaska in this example.


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Some Republicans Want to Reverse the GOP Cuts to Rural and Tribal Radio Stations

After the GOP-controlled Congress slashed public broadcasting funds, some Republican lawmakers say they’re working to secure money to keep vital tribal and rural stations on the air.
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Desiree Hagen, KOTZ’s news director — who says she’s the only reporter above the Arctic Circle in the United States — told NOTUS the tribal station is “super crucial,” giving information to locals that could mean life or death, like search-and-rescue alerts, warnings on where ice is thin and critical weather updates — as well as community information, like which high school student may have made the winning shot at a local basketball game.
Without federal funding, Hagen expects the station would be “just like an automated transmission with nobody working here.”

“Probably no news, no local content,” she said. “We would have to hustle a lot. We would have to spend the hours that we’re struggling to keep ourselves on air already devoted to trying to find these extra funding mechanisms.”
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The problem with this is that there's nothing in it for anyone else. So while it may be great for those small states, they don't have enough votes to get anything passed. There was a similar discussion during the appropriations process in January, and it all went nowhere.

Bacon Presses House to Restore at Least Some Federal Public Broadcasting Money for FY26

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The advantage of the old CPB process was that it wasn't just for poor radio stations. There was something in it for everyone, so reps from all states had a vested interest. That doesn't exist in this idea. It's just a form of radio welfare. Old school conservatives won't support it for that reason.
 


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