The CPB will shut down after a federal funding cut, ending decades of support for PBS and NPR stations and sparking concerns over public media’s future.

Last year, Congress voted to cut funding to the CPB, a move supporters of public broadcasting said would heavily impact stations in smaller and more remote parts of the country.

The CPB was a private, nonprofit corporation authorized by Congress in the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. It subsidized local public stations, many of which air programming from National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service.

About 70% of CPB’s funds went to approximately 1,500 public television and radio stations in the United States. The organization received about $525 million annually from Congress. PBS has said federal funding previously accounted for about 15% of revenue for the public television system.

The Trump administration argued that government funding of news media in “this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence.”