Subtract the government advertisement spending too.
My suggestion all along has been to use PBS and NPR as a vehicle for President Trump to address the nation on a weekly basis, much like FDR and his fireside chats. Liberals might object, but the “P” in both of them stands for “Public”.
Yay! Kill the post office too!
And the U.S. Federal government spends many times that dictating the content of American TV shows. This started in the 1980s, when Congress appropriated hundreds of millions annually to the networks to air police shows that glorified the police rather than defense attorneys such as Perry Mason.
This federal money may be the difference between a profit and a loss for most of the network media parts of GE, Disney, Comcast, Fox, CBS, and National Socialist Radio. Is that all of the Big 6?
DO it Trump, Do it! Please save some money for the country for a change, All this waste is so obvious to the Red counties all over America.
This and National Endowment of Arts, and lots of others.
In hell, NPR blares 24/7.
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.
As I get older I become less tolerant of pork, earmarks, flip flops, intrigues, conspiracies, corruption...
Now I have to dig deep to educate myself on the need for the government to have "public broadcasting." What were the arguments pro and con the whole idea during adoption of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967?
If 15% for TV and 10% of radio represents taxpayer money; it's clearly pork, for the benefit of whom?
They can play in the Alinski and enemies domestic playground with the other 7/8 of what is clearly a huge and bloated budget. Wall to wall unaccountable bureaucrats of questionable character.
They damned well can exist without taxpayer involuntary contribution.
Regardless of who ends up controlling content, Republicans, Democrats, muslims, socialists, communists, greens, Blackthugs, Perverts, feminists or the Klu Klux Klan, or an unholy combination thereof, they can fund their own damned TV and Radio propaganda.
I certainly don't want any part of it!
$3,800,000,000 budget? Are you s******g me??
Surely they can struggle with their existence with about a 1/8 reduction!
And who funds it, and what propaganda or incitements they spout, can be monitored, and indicted by the U.S. intelligence services, both foreign and domestic.
What a royal mess for the Republic has been created and going on for about 50 years? Perhaps longer?
Cut 100% of the Taxpayer subsidy now!
How did the country survive before 1967 without PBS TV and radio??
This is no longer the 1967 electorate or dealing with 1967 ethics, character and quality of elected political criminals.
So instead of interrupting programming for obnoxious, nagging appeals for cash and promises of stupid, half-assed free gifts if you contribute enough, they might actually have to run (gulp) commercials, designed by advertisers with money to spare to both entertain and sell a product produced by a corporation. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I’ve been listening to NPR on my drive to work. STILL have not heard a balanced, fair or positive story about Trump. Not one. ALL negative. Slash and burn, Trump.
YES!
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Despite repeated efforts to kill federal funding of public broadcasting since Republicans won the House in 2010 and Presidential-nominee Mitt Romney made it a campaign promise in 2012, the U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education are spending $470.7 million in U.S. taxpayer cash to fund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) this year, which provides 15 percent of PBS television and 10 percent of NPR radio broadcasting funding
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BWAHAHahahaha. Repeated ‘efforts’, ‘campaign promises’ from Mittens. Oh, I needed that chuckle.
Least they note it’s TAXPAYER $$. Wish they’d also note the lack of authority to spend the same....
Suggest they dump Big Bird to the public domain for the $$ given and watch their heads explode. NPR Pravda? Buh-bye.
Not enough.
He needs to do away with it. PBS is outdated and no longer needed.
Give PBS warning that funding will be reduced by half in June and end in December. That’s fair and balanced.
Use the 500 million $’s to treat Vets at any clinic or hospital and fire the lazy bums at our current Veteran Hospital.
THANK YOU!! Remove ALL funding from these entities. Let ‘em sink or swim on their own — like most businesses in America. I, personally, have a problem with my tax dollars being spent this way.
Yank all money going to Planned Parenthood and National Endowment For The Arts, too.
I had no idea it was so much money. Why the hell do we fund them anyhow?
What a great and long-overdue idea.
Let’s do the same with the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
Now don’t get me wrong. I am supportive of a number of arts and humanities-related programs. I just believe that government should not be funding them. These fields should be going to the private sector for funding.
No artist, no matter how valuable and thought-provoking their works my be, is entitled to government aid.
It takes that much money to only be 15% of the budget? Is that right? The rest is funded through donations/sponsors?