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The Corp. for Public Broadcasting helps support more than 1,500 local public television and radio stations nationwide.

But without funding from public television, his educational programming such as “The Civil War” and “Baseball” might never have existed, he told “PBS News Hour” in an interview Thursday.

However, even though CPB gives the bulk of its government appropriations to local stations, it does get some money in turn—namely, programming fees that Michigan Public pays for the rights to broadcast NPR shows like All Things Considered, just as Missouri’s Ozarks Public Television pays for the rights to broadcast PBS NewsHour.

Additionally, the new episodes will be available day-and-date on PBS stations and PBS Kids digital platforms, “continuing its 50+ year legacy of using the power of public television to bring critical early learning to children across the country for free.”

His name is synonymous with public television’s mission statement to serve the American public “with programming and services of the highest quality, using media to educate, inspire, entertain and express a diversity of perspectives.”