Bill Kling, president of Minnesota Public Radio, tells the Minnesota Star-Tribune that he has heard nothing from CPB to indicate that the agency will stop funding MPR’s national production Weekend America. A New York Times article last week said CPB Chairman Ken Tomlinson had told board members the funding would end.
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