WSRE-PBS is evaluating "where to eliminate programming" and WUWF is assessing how to proceed after the funding cut.

President Donald Trump waits to sign a measure that would eliminate nearly $1.1 billion in funding put aside for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

While public TV and radio stations in much of rural America don’t depend on federal funding as heavily as their Alaska counterparts, the cuts would hit many of them hard. In Colorado’s Four Corners region, KSUT gets 20 percent of its funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

In Alaska, a public radio station general manager took a moment from a busy day warning her community about a possible tsunami for a special task — sending a text message to Sen.

Murkowski said on Wednesday that she still opposes the bill after voting on Tuesday against advancing it forward.

The rescissions package passed by a vote of 51-48, with Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski joining Democrats in voting against it.

The three CPB board members were terminated in April, yet have continued to show up to work, claiming the president didn't have the authority to fire them.

The rescissions package the Senate approved early Thursday pulls more than $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) that provides federal funding for NPR and PBS.