UPDATE - Jan 6, 2026
While the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Board of Directors voted to dissolve CPB today, PBS SoCal is still here, serving the Southern California community. Thanks to Viewers Like You, we've received generous support in the months since the government voted to defund public media. We're proud to serve as the PBS member station for more than 22 million people and look forward continuing our service to you for many years to come. To help bolster our efforts, you can donate to PBS SoCal at the link in our bio.
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Despite an extraordinary outpouring of public support—including nearly 100,000 calls and 2.9 million emails—Congress voted to eliminate $1.1 billion in previously approved federal funding for public media. For PBS SoCal and other stations across the country, these cuts will have real, lasting consequences for the communities we serve.
But our work continues. PBS SoCal remains dedicated to our mission to educate, inform and inspire the 18 million+ people who call Southern California home. We will continue serving our vital role in this community today, tomorrow, and in the years to come, as we build a new future for public media, without the long-time federal support that helped create the public broadcasting system as we know it today.
Alongside Viewers Like You, we’ll chart a path forward—because public media is too important to lose.
We need to be ready for what's next. Your support is more important than ever. Will you help us build a new and bright public media future? Visit the link in our bio to support PBS SoCal.
Last night, President Trump signed an executive order directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to eliminate federal funding to PBS and NPR.
PBS SoCal has proudly served Southern California for over 60 years — and we’re committed to being here for generations to come. But protecting the future of Public Media requires all of us. Your support matters now more than ever — and it will likely be needed again in the months ahead as we continue to defend the essential services public media provides.
If you stand with Public Media, please share this image and visit @mypublicmedia to learn how you can continue to support us.
The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 aimed to give “a stronger voice to educational radio and television.” As a result, Public Media (non-commercial television and radio) stations around the country began to fulfill a collective mission to "educate, inform, and inspire."
For 60+ years, PBS SoCal has been an indispensable part of our Southern California communities, providing free, high-quality content and services, because we exist to serve the public good.
As threats to public media funding grow, the future of local stations like ours is at risk. Your voice can make a difference—stand with PBS SoCal to remind lawmakers that public media is essential. Click the link in our bio to learn how you can help defend this essential service for future generations.
Opinions ... everybody has some ... including, TV hosts. Bridget Lancaster and @juliacollindavison of @testkitchen shared some of their controversial food opinions with us 😲.
Agree? Disagree? Have a controversial food opinion of your own you want to share? Let us know in the comments, and watch "America's Test Kitchen" on the PBS app!
We’re accepting submissions for the 2026 Fine Cut Festival Films! 🎥 🍿
Every year, the festival encourages promising filmmakers who are currently enrolled in or recently graduated from California film schools to submit short films in Documentary, Animation and Narrative categories.
Finalists will be included in a series of broadcast episodes airing locally and streaming this fall while winners will receive valuable prize packages.
Visit the link in bio for more information and to submit your film.
In addition to exploring new skill sets and developing as professionals, PBS SoCal interns get other pretty sweet perks! If you'd like to be considered for an internship, check out the openings at the link in our bio and send your application materials our way!
Check out @UCLAchpr Director Ninez A. Ponce on @pbssocal ’s Earth Focus on Wednesday, May 13 at 7:30 p.m. PT! That’s tomorrow! We’re featured in a new episode about Food Insecurity. If you can’t tune in, it’s available to stream on the PBS app!
Kern County is home to over 36,000 active oil wells and is the biggest oil producing county in California. Meanwhile, 130 miles away in Los Angeles, many are pushing back against oil drilling. Watch Earth Focus on the PBS app or YouTube to learn more about the effort to end drilling in LA.
Happy 100th Birthday Sir David Attenborough! 🎉As we celebrate, here are 3 things to know about the naturalist who pioneered wildlife documentaries. 🐨🦋🐸
Watch Life on Earth: Attenborough’s Greatest Adventure on the PBS app to learn more.
From communication to manufacturing, here’s how SoCal made the Artemis II mission possible. Watch NOVA’s Return to the Moon on the PBS app to learn more.
Someone pinch me! I’m so so honored to collaborate with PBS SoCal as the featured artist for their donation campaign this year!
After everything that SoCal has weathered through and calling SoCal my home for many years, I wanted to highlight the community that we have and showcase my love of the land that we have the privilege to live in. Most importantly, to also highlight the importance of our right to public media as a people.
The design is featured on an exclusive hoodie, t-shirt, and tote bag. You can choose any merch you’d like after donating. Visit the link in PBS SoCal’s bio (or the link in my Bio) to learn more and to show your support for PBS SoCal!!
Come on art community! Let’s show our PBS some love! Get over there and donate! 💜
Most underused right? Most ignored right? Most random right? @bensheehan of @pbs ’ “Civics Made Easy” plays a round of “Constitutional Superlatives” with “Won’t You Be My Gamer?” hosts @elysewillems & @nikolez .
Check out Ben’s Gamer episodes at the link in PBS SoCal’s bio.
