By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — For West Virginia Public Broadcasting, “on the air” is threatened by “up in the air.”
“We need the support,” West Virginia Educational Broadcasting Commission chair William File III said during the WVPB advisory board’s latest quarterly meeting. “There’s no question.”
The West Virginia Educational Broadcasting Commission faced a grim future for American public media at the Sept. 3 meeting, acknowledging the end of funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the private, nonprofit corporation authorized by Congress in 1967 that has been the largest source of funding for public radio, television and related online and mobile services.
“Funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was ended, but things are still kind of up in the air on what that means,” WVPB executive director Eddie Isom said at the commission meeting.
