NPR challenges CPB’s authority to redirect millions in funding

NPR has asked a federal judge in D.C. to block the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from transferring millions in satellite funding to a newly formed nonprofit run by a coalition of public media organizations.

The legal filing Friday came just hours after CPB announced it was awarding as much as $57.9 million over five years to Public Media Infrastructure (PMI), the nonprofit group that counts such radio mainstays as New York Public Radio, American Public Media and PRX as founding partners. The grant, it said, would provide “reliable interconnection services” plus infrastructure to support distributing, measuring and monetizing radio and digital content.

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