Approximately one in ten Americans wrongly believe PBS and its parent, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, gets about a third or even half of the entire federal budget annually. In a CNN survey taken just last year, 7% of Americans said they believed PBS gets “more than 50%” of the federal budget, and another 4% said they beleived PBS gets 31%-50% of the federal budget. A whopping 40% claimed PBS gets 1% to 5% of the federal budget. Only 27% of Americans guessed correctly, answering “less that 1%.”