They don't care MAGA fucked over their funding, and had threatened to do so for sometime. They toed the line before the defunding, and for some inexplicable reason they keep on covering up.

... in spite of laws regarding public broadcasters from overly mentioning negative commentary on elected state officials.

When I was a young hippie freshman at the University of Akron (also known as Hill Top High or Polymer High due to the money the rubber companies poured into the Chemical Engineering, including the largest class building up to the time. HUGE.) I was a news reader for WAUP and got air suspended for referring to then Governor Rhodes as "Governor James "Windy" Rhodes" during a news break of a basketball game and a listener reported me.

or was the radio station run by a bunch of tight asses?

... taking state funding cannot make political statement for or against the state or any elected state official. "Windy" was considered a political slur on poor little Jimmie Rhodes.

Some RW alumni listening to the game on radio heard it and reported me to the university. I did it on Saturday afternoon and was out on Monday morning, like the decision was made on Sunday.

Rhodes did fuck up monumentally in May, 1970, he called the National Guard on campus at Kent State.