New proposal cuts all state funding to public television

Public television would lose its state funding in a budget proposal adopted by the Legislature’s budget conference committee Friday.
Rep. Les Gara, D- Anchorage, was the only committee member to object to the cut for public television. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)The committee removed all $600,000 that Governor Bill Walker proposed for public TV.
The committee approved Walker’s $2 million request for public radio, as well as $44,000 for the Alaska Public Broadcasting Commissio