Congress defunded PBS. Here's how it's surviving and planning for the future.

When PBS was created in the late 1960s, there was no other place to find educational kid's TV like "Sesame Street." There are more options now.

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• Conservatives have tried to cut federal funding for public media for decades.
• This year, they succeeded and clawed back $1 billion from NPR and PBS.
• PBS CEO Paula Kerger says she has to plan on living without that money forever — but still wants to convince Congress to fund her again.