The Czech foreign minister said on Sunday he would discuss the future of Prague-based Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFERL) with European peers after Washington stopped funding it.
Donald Trump's administration put journalists at several US-funded broadcasters, including RFERL and Voice of America, on leave on Saturday as it froze funding to them.
Founded by the United States during the Cold War to counter Soviet propaganda, RFE/RL was banned across the communist bloc including former Czechoslovakia, where regimes regularly jammed its signal.
The US-funded media have since reoriented themselves, focusing on countries like Iran, Russia and China.
"It is in our interest not to have totalitarian regimes blossoming around us," Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said on Sunday.
"Therefore we have to talk about steps to preserve this institution," he added.
Originally aired from Munich, RFERL moved to Prague in 1995, four years after the Soviet bloc collapsed.
RFE/RL now reaches 23 countries in 27 languages with a network of some 1,700 journalists and freelancers, reaching almost 50 million people weekly.
The White House said its move was to ensure that US "taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda".
Lipavsky said that "Radio Free Europe is an institution consisting of people, processes, systems, colleagues, whole desks".
"If it shuts down, it cannot be easily rebuilt."
Reacting to the US decision, Lipavsky said on X on Saturday that "from Belarus to Iran, from Russia to Afghanistan, Radio Free Europe and Voice of America remain among the few free sources of information for those living in oppression".
"Silencing them would not just be a loss for them, but for all of us who believe in democracy," he added.