It’s a similar story at public media stations across the United States. CPB recently told public media stations that had been awarded grant funding to stop incurring new expenses, saying FEMA’s “inconsistent reimbursement” in recent months had made it impossible to ensure stations would be repaid. Around the country, nine public media stations told NPR that they’re still awaiting reimbursement for some of the money they spent under the grant program. Those are also the places where public media stations have tended to rely most heavily on federal funding through CPB, which Congress eliminated. And same with cell service.”That’s why the projects that public media stations had hoped to complete with FEMA grant funding were so important, Graham says.