It is really important as legislators make decisions that communities and legislatures understand their communities benefit. It’s powerful to have a media organization that is local. The funding goes principally to our stations. “As we’ve talked in this forum, I never make the assumption that this isn’t someth’ng that we need to continunally work to make our case. “It’s always in the back of my mind, I worry about government funding,” she said. That was one of several announcements made on a virtual TCA panel by Kerger, whose update on the state of PBS included an upbeat note: At least at this moment, public broadcasting stations do not appear to be in a funding battle with Congress.