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Federal funding is essential to public radio's service to the American public and its continuation is critical for both stations and program producers, including NPR.
CPB is a private, nonprofit corporation created by Congress in the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.
CPB is the steward of the federal government’s investment in public broadcasting and the largest single source of funding for public radio, television, and related online and mobile services.
CPB’s mission is to ensure universal access to non-commercial, high-quality content and telecommunications services. It does so by distributing more than 70% of its funding to more than 1,500 locally owned public radio and television stations.
CPB by the numbers:
391 radio grantees, representing 1,207 public radio stations 158 television grantees, representing 357 public TV stations 251 of the total 549 radio and TV grantees are considered rural 99% of Americans have access to public media More than 70% of CPB’s federal funding goes directly to local public media stations Less than 5% of funding is spent on CPB operations CPB does not produce programming and does not own, operate or control any public broadcasting stations. Additionally, CPB, PBS, and NPR are independent of each other and of local public television and radio stations.
CPB strives to support diverse programs and services that inform, educate, enlighten and enrich the public. Through grants, CPB encourages the development of content that addresses the needs of underserved audiences, especially children and minorities. CPB also funds multiple digital platforms used by thousands of public media producers and production companies throughout the country.
CPB's core values of collaboration, innovation, engagement, and diversity, help to inform our program investments system-wide.
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Must be nice to be a libertarian—lot of fat government subsidies seem to come their way.
Perhaps worth reading from the horses' mouth as it were.
Also, here's the financials for a member station near me:
https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/4c/1d/4e0c21b44d2aa963c25f8bc9...
Note that state contributions totaled less than 5% of their total revenue. The CPB grant, which could be stretched to be considered state/government contributions, was about 16% of their revenue.
Given that member station contribution is 30% of NPR's total revenue, there's no chance that state funding is going to reach 30%-40% values.
This basically is big govt working the right way. This framework enables local communities to support their local public broadcasting networks, which then contribute to the state and federal news via NPR, which is better at elevating the stories that matter to the nation.