The most concerning immediate impact will be not be on programming but on infrastructure subsidized by CPB. Especially in terms of keeping stations beyond the major markets open and operable, particularly rural radio stations and the "translators" that transmit over-the-air signals across major distances in Western states or via internet interfaces. In the small poor rural town where some of my family has long lived, the local public radio station remains -- for now -- the only freely accessible source of actually local information (weather emergency notifications, school closures, road conditions, no-cost event announcements). And this station doesn't even air much if any NPR news programming that isn't produced by regional public radio stations in the state. And with no private local funding (remember it's a poor town in a large poor state), I can't see how a tiny station like this survives these cataclysmic cuts to the CPB budget.