Overview
- NPR’s revived deal resolves its lawsuit over CPB’s contract reversal after White House pressure, though CPB denies political interference.
- NPR will waive fees for stations using the Public Radio Satellite System under the settlement.
- CPB says it admits no wrongdoing and cast the outcome as a win, even after Judge Randolph Moss earlier said its defense was not credible.
- NPR will drop claims related to CPB’s funding of the Public Media Infrastructure consortium, and CPB says the PMI contract continues.
- The broader constitutional challenge to President Trump’s executive order cutting public media funds proceeds to a December merits hearing, with CPB saying it will not enforce the order absent a court directive.