public broadcasting

Public goods are shared resources and services that are available to everyone and build communities. HPPR is such a public good, providing the High Plains with factual, in-depth and impartial news and information, timeless and inspiring music, and programming exploring and celebrating the history, cultures and community life of the High Plains. It seeks to serve the region as a public forum, performance hall, library, continuing education center and virtual highway to new places, all wrapped into one and open to all, 24 hours a day.

Here on the High Plains and all across the country, we benefit from a uniquely American system of public media. It’s a system based on local stations with missions of serving the civic, educational and cultural needs of their local communities. Collectively, these local stations serve 99% of the country’s population every day with entirely free, easily accessible and high-quality programming.

A series of White House actions have been taken in recent days aimed at eliminating all federal support of public broadcasting and undermining the continued operations and independence of over 1,500 local public radio and TV stations across the country, including HPPR.

Joyce Slocum, who led both NPR and Texas Public Radio into a new era for public media, died Sunday from complications of colon cancer.

Texas Panhandle PBS audiences can now get the 24-7 PBS Kids channel on air and online.As the Canadian Record reports, the free service features…

The host of a long-running Kansas public television is leaving his position reports KPR. Dave Kendall is the host of Sunflower Journeys. He says he’s been…