re: Corporation For Public Broadcasting To Shut Down Operations After Loss Of Federal Funding

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This is the bed they made by choosing partisan politics over neutral programming.

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All you had to do was pump the breaks on the insanity and aim down the middle to keep your jobs.

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So if pbs was kissing trumps arse this would never have happened right ?

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my question was not how would they fund the purchase of the programming, but more how that process will work going forward

for example, PBS distributes programs via satellite and terrestrial (fiber) delivery systems that were Federally funded through CPB - how these will be managed and maintained in the future is unclear

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i would think ramping up local corporate support and underwriting would get most stations over the hump

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Our FY23 data showed that the average reliance on federal funding among the network’s radio stations since 2011 only slightly decreased, from 14% to 13%. However, if we consider the difference in median reliance among NPR stations — that is, the exact middle number in the datasets — there’s a stark difference: The median reliance in 2011 was the same as the average, 14%, but the median reliance in FY23 was just 8%. That means that, on the whole, more NPR stations became less reliant. Compare that to PBS’ average and median reliance, which were 18% and 16%, respectively. A higher distribution of NPR’s stations rely less on federal funding, while PBS’ stations are more evenly distributed. Good news for NPR, not-so-great news for PBS.

Additionally, the number of member stations that would be lost in scenarios where 10%, 15% or 20% reliance meant closure significantly decreased. In 2011, between 24% and 69% of their stations would be lost; now, it would be between 15% and 34%. The study urgently recommended that NPR stations become less dependent on federal funding, and it’s inarguable that in part they’ve succeeded.

But among the data are clear warning signs. The comparison between average and median reliance on federal funding among NPR stations shows a stark contrast between what you might call the haves and the have-nots. As mentioned before, more NPR stations became less reliant, but the gulf between the average and median means that some stations became even more reliant than they were in 2011.

Furthermore, the radio stations that were left behind seem to be ones that serve rural and diverse populations.

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are you in the public media biz?

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. I predict public broadcasting will become even more liberal as the urban centers dominate, and rural stations shut down.

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