Author Topic: been listening to some npr.. (Read 581 times)

Sandman · « **Reply #15 on:** July 03, 2006, 04:00:42 PM »

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Originally posted by Shuckins
Actually, NPR was 100% funded by the federal government 20 years ago. Criticism from the right curtailed some of that...but NPR still gets a large chunk of its funding from CPB, which is heavily funded by the federal government.

As to fairness, the political commentaries I have heard broadcast by them seem to be heavily partisan.

Just my impression of course.

Okay... I found this document concerning public broadcasting.

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Public broadcasting reported total income of $2.3 billion in FY2003 (the most recent data available). The federal contribution made up about 15% of the system’s total income. The remaining 85% was raised from non-federal sources (individuals, businesses, foundations, state and local governments, and educational institutions). The largest single income source (26% in FY2003) came from membership. Neither PBS nor NPR receives operating funds from the CPB; only the local member stations receive these funds directly.

So... money goes from the government to CPB, to the local stations, and then from them to NPR.

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Overall, 14.9% of all public television and radio broadcasting funding comes from the federal appropriations that CPB distributes. However, among individual members of PBS, NPR, and PRI, the amount of federal dollars that contributes to a station’s annual budget depends on the size of that station’s budget, the type of broadcast content developed or purchased, and the specificity of individual grants awarded to these stations.

Total CPB appropriation is $400 million.

Sandman · « **Reply #16 on:** July 03, 2006, 04:08:04 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2

2% of their funding is tax money? I would have to see a source on that... I do know that they were 100% not long ago. If it is only 2% then why bother? They don't need it. I did notice a lot more commercials than I recall they had in the past.

It's 2% directly. As Shuckints pointed out, the NPR does receive additional CPB funding via the local stations.

I can only assume that stations vary. The local here is KCRW out of Santa Monica. They don't run commercials.

Mustaine · « **Reply #17 on:** July 03, 2006, 04:08:41 PM »

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Originally posted by lasersailor184
The original name of NPR was not NPR, but very similar, and ironic too.

5 points to the person who can tell me the original name.

all i can find is:

APR?

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MPR established American Public Radio (APR, now known as Public Radio International or PRI)

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #18 on:** July 03, 2006, 04:22:10 PM »

National peoples radio would fit their ajenda better.

Chairboy · « **Reply #19 on:** July 03, 2006, 04:22:43 PM »

I believe APR is one of NPR's competitors.

Here's a good article on NPR and it's history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Public_Radio

No mention of it being called "The Communist Network" or the "Workers of the World Radio", if that's what Lasersailor is looking for.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #20 on:** July 03, 2006, 05:32:05 PM »

Can't find anything on what NPR was called before it was NPR, but he may be referring to a public radio network that predates NPR.

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Pacifica was founded in 1946 by pacifist Lewis Hill who was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1919. During World War II he filed as a conscientious objector. After the war he and a small group of ex-conscientious objectors created the Pacifica Foundation. The foundation's first project, KPFA in Berkeley, California, was inaugurated in 1949.

Pacifica Radio Wikipedia

Gunslinger · « **Reply #21 on:** July 03, 2006, 05:40:06 PM »

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Originally posted by Sandman
Doh... you're right. I looked through the CPB site and the NPR site, and I can't figure out how much money they get from CPB.

Sandy you ever catch the John and Ken show on KFI out there? I listened to them pretty regularly and they aren't at all limbaugh conservatives (meaning they disagree with the president publicly as much as they agree with him) Iliked them alot because they weren't so far to the right.

Sandman · « **Reply #22 on:** July 03, 2006, 05:45:53 PM »

I can't stand KFI. Way WAY too much advertising.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #23 on:** July 03, 2006, 05:58:37 PM »

Nope, the answer is really simple. It's extremely similar to NPR, just one word added to it.

Debonair · « **Reply #24 on:** July 04, 2006, 12:30:47 AM »

is the word "sucks"or is it "igotthisjobbecausemyhdadknowy ousyourdad"?

dmf · « **Reply #25 on:** July 04, 2006, 01:55:26 AM »

http://www.maxfm.fm No politics, just a few commericals, and traffic/weather
their motto ( shut up and rock )

lazs2 · « **Reply #26 on:** July 04, 2006, 09:39:19 AM »

well.... seems that NPR's latest budget was about 150 million. Mcdonalds gave them a 200 million dollar grant so they should be able to operate for quite some time.

It seems that the government funnels about 15% of the money needed to run the stations to them in various ways.

It is so biased that I don't believe that my money should go to it. I think they should have to compete just like every one else.

The lefty message may be having a hard time selling but...

That doesn't mean I got to subsidise it.

oh... rpm...for right wing stuff... I like mike medved... the commercials are too much for me to bear tho.

lazs

bj229r · « **Reply #27 on:** July 04, 2006, 11:00:11 AM »

My XM radio can record 5 hours of audio.... so 3 hours is Laura Ingraham and 2 hours is Gordon Liddy---when ya play it back...skips thru commercials like individual mp3 files--sposed to be a newer model coming out that does 50 hours