WASHINGTON—The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has announced that it will distribute the remaining $7.1 million in obligated Community Service Grant (CSG) funds to eligible local public radio and television stations in the coming days. In making the announcement, the CPB reported that unless new federal funding is appropriated to CPB, these payments will mark the final CSG payments to stations, ending the federal support that has sustained the operations of 1,500 local public media stations across the country for many decades. “Local public media stations are rooted in and responsive to the information and education needs of the communities they serve. However, the Rescissions Act of 2025 eliminated already appropriated funding for public broadcasting in FY 2026 and FY 2027. With no future federal funding available, CPB is winding down its operations and will now distribute the remaining $7.1 million to stations in the coming days, the agency said.