The organization said on Thursday that the PBS program has canceled nearly 100 employees jobs in the past few months due to the loss of federal financing.
A PBS spokesman said that the discounts in jobs include 34 employees who were notified on Thursday that they were losing their jobs.
Republican -controlled Congress in July reduced $ 1.1 billion in federal funding for PBS and NPR.
“At this unprecedented moment, we continue to focus on what matters more: ensuring that members stations can provide high -quality content and services to societies throughout America,” said a spokesman.
The situations that were canceled for the first time were reported New York Times.
The rescue package in July reduced $ 9 billion of federal financing, including all $ 1.1 billion federal funds that were approved for the company for the public broadcast for the next two years.
The public broadcasting company, which helps in supporting more than 1500 NPR and locally owned PBS stations, said in August that it will be closed due to the loss of federal funds.
President Donald Trump and some members of the Republican Congress have long complained about a liberal bias in news coverage on NPR and PBS, which the organizations have denied. PBS is also famous for its children’s programming, including “Sesame Street”.
Defenders said that the discounts in NPR and PBS threaten vital information for rural societies.
The American Senator Lisa Morkovsky, RA Alaska, voted against the rescue package, and called on the services provided to her vital and life -saving state, noting the broadcast warnings after an earthquake of 7.3 degrees on July 16.
A stronger earthquake, Temblor, which is 8.8 degrees, fell off the east coast of Russia after two weeks, on July 29, and also caused Tsunami to Alaska.
Morkovsky told the legislators in a session two days after this earthquake, which was in Senetka in Setka about 8300, and the KCAW public radio station was the only place to broadcast alert and information.
“We call it ancient style, but when you are really in remote places, frightening things come on your way, you want to know all the means that you may have to communicate with,” said Morkovsky on August 1.
KCAW, known as Radio Radio, He said he is facing the budget reduction by 24 % Because of the reduction in federal financing.