CEO’s Salary At Defunded Corporation
For Public Broadcasting Could Fund A Radio
Station For Years
Posted By: Harlowe, 8/4/2025 12:33:56 PM
Still flabbergasted over being defunded by Congress, board members of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) cried, lied, and quoted Shakespeare during their melodramatic July 24 board meeting. On August 1, the board announced it is starting an “orderly wind-down of its operations,” and most of the CPB staff positions “will conclude with the close of the fiscal year on September 30, 2025.” You would cry too, if you were losing a compensation package bigger than the salary of the president of the United States. In 2022, CPB CEO Patricia Harrison’s compensation was $524,000, according to the CPB’ most recently available 990 tax exempt form.
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Watch’ ‘warrior’ who trained to
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to Stop Trump From Attacking Cartels in
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FTA: “In 2022, CPB spent $19.3 million on salaries and benefits.” Compensation packages worth more than $260,000 were paid to at least 14 CPB employees with five of them being paid over $470,000. On April 28, 2025, President Trump removed CPB Board members Laura Ross, Thomas Rothman and Diane Kaplan effective immediately; the CPB board changed the bylaws after they had been removed saying a president could not remove them. PDJT Administration went back to court “to make board members pay back money earned while remaining on the board and to rescind any decisions they made while acting as board members.”