Paula Kerger is used to fighting for PBS. Now the stakes are higher. - The Washington Post Highlight

Most of the money goes to local stations. I was just talking to someone about our station in Kansas, in Smokey Hills; 54 percent of their money comes from the federal government. It is obviously an existential circumstance for them. They do a call-in medical show because they’re serving a very large rural area. A lot of what they do — as all of our stations do — is try to understand what the local market needs and then they step up to it.