Posted on 06/25/2012 6:50:29 AM PDT by raccoonradio
The toll on public television would also be harsh, says a new revenue analysis from Booz & Company presented in Washington DC. Booz says 54 public TV stations would be at high risk of shutting down, without revenue support from CPB. The outside experts looked at five alternative scenarios, including allowing public stations to accept some advertising. It decided that “a shift from a non-commercial model to a commercial advertising model would have dramatically negative consequences for many of the communities that public broadcasters serve.”
It observes that federal support has already shrunk by $50 million in the last two years, and that zeroing it out would produce “a cascading, debilitating effect.” The weaker stations serving small communities would go out first, followed by a possible “collapse of the system itself.” Booz says that “more than 60% of public television and radio stations are operating with budget deficits” now. Congress asked for this report from an impartial analyst. Read the Booz & Company study here
>> five alternative scenarios, including allowing public stations to accept some advertising.
Please do! Some of the sponsorship announcements look like ads anyway. What's wrong with "This rerun of Car Talk will be right back after this message from Fram Auto Filters?"
--In Boston there are two big NPR stations, WBUR (B.U.) and WGBH (public). Often they duplicate programming. WGBH--which has Taj Mahal studios, and I'm not talking about the jazz artist--is going to dump most of their jazz programming to air news/talk, reruns of shows from earlier in the day. Jazz fans, tough cookies. They dumped blues and folk a couple years back and put classical on a separate signal.
I don't want my taxpayer money going to NPR and PBS! Let them run ads. Let them make a bunch of money IF they can. If not, let them fail. As it is, they earn lots of $$ through listener donations, corporate giving, etc. Companies ranging from Angie's List to movie studios to credit card companies to "Fox Broadcasting Company" have donated to NPR. Now they are crying poormouth with the possibility of being defunded.
And then there's the bias. This is why Air America failed: who's gonna listen to moonbat stuff on small AM stations when you can get it on powerful FMs...taxpayer funded?
Government should not be in business. Radio is a business.
Maybe to be replaced with Rush?
The government has no business being in the radio business.
Period.
“a shift from a non-commercial model to a commercial advertising model would have dramatically negative consequences for many of the communities that public broadcasters serve.”
...like what!? The libs that get thier “news” from PBS would have to “suffer” by listening to paid commercials? ALL public stations need to be put on alert that federal funding is over in say 6 months and they’ll have to learn how to actually EARN an income or go out of biz. Period.
The government has no business being in the radio business.
Period.
Espechially when NPR is a propaganda arm of the d.n.c.
There should be a mandate and everyone should have to prove they listen to public radio by sending in a donation, based on income-level. Upon receipt of the donation a certificate would be mailed in six to eight weeks. This certificate would have to be included in all tax returns. Of course, the losers of life’s lottery would get theirs for free via a new entitlement. A new department of the fed could be created with an NPR-Czar to oversee the enforcement of the law. They would need an enforcement arm in the department, armed of course. Just think of all the jobs this would create! GO NPR!!
My company is at risk, too! Give me money!!!
Government has no business operating businesses.
What, no more blitzes where we have to sit through 15 minutes, twice each hour, of people with inane chatter, or sitting idly by in the background waiting for a phone to ring? When what’s presented during these blitzes is usually the only redeeming programming on that channel throughout the year? And that’s why these are the only occasions I tune in? I won’t have to put up with that anymore? GOOD!
The sooner the better...
“THEY WANT TO KILL BIG BIRD!”.......You know that’s coming....again.....and again......even though Sesame street makes untold hundreds of millions of dollars off their toys they sell as a result of their free advertising ride at taxpayer’s expense!
WE should demand HALF THE PROFITS from ALL Sesame Street toy sales! After all, WE helped pay for them!..........
Sell them a turn and drain on the public coffers into something that generates revenue.
The Sierra Club would have the same opportunity to buy them as Clear Channel Communications.
People forget that public broadcasting originated back in the 1960's when choices and formats were severely limited. That has not been the case in over 30 years.
Jim Lehrer and his cronies could offer themselves as a dinosaur exhibit in a natural history museum.
First, they told us, “No need to cut off funding, it’s only a small percentage of their gross, anyway”.
Now, when it looks like Obama will lose and Republicans might control the House and Senate, they tell us they’ll go under.
I remember when the comics used to call ‘PBS’ the Petroleum Broadcasting System. But since they no longer ‘contribute’ in the way they did in the 70’s, so-called ‘Public Broadcasting’ has changed from ‘educational’ to ‘propaganda’................
Exactly. As a matter of fact the first episode of WKRP in Cincinnati said just that. Young Andy Travis is hired to be
new program director of a sleepy elevator music station, and changes the format to rock n roll.
Mrs Carlson (station owner): Young man, this radio station is a business. It is not here for your personal listening pleasure.
Andy: Ma’am, I know it’s a business. That’s why I had no choice but to change the station’s format
—Songs, people tune in or out
—Talk about hot topics—PEOPLE STAY TUNED!
Even public radio is a business. Some call them National
Profit Radio. I saw an article that talked about a “decline in advertising for public radio”. Wha...decline in ADVERTISING? For NON COMMERCIAL RADIO?
Guess what...they may not run 30 second spots but they do have advertisers. Those sponsorship messages sure sound like ads. “Clifford the Big Red Dog...made possible by a donation from Kellogg’s”. And you see images not much
different from TV ads.
Now let them run ads the way the other stations do (allow them). If they succeed, fine, if they fail, fine. As the old blues song goes, public TV and radio, “Get your hand out of my pocket/ Ain’t nothin’ there that belongs to you.”
D E F U N D ‘E M!!!
D E F U N D ‘E M!!!
D E F U N D ‘E M!!!
(bears repeating)
I think some states like Maine and New Jersey (Republican governors) have made efforts to defund or sell off their
public radio/state-run stations! Paul Lepage. Chris Christie.
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