Defunding NPR Likely Wouldn’t Go Into Effect for 2 Years

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 Defunding NPR Likely Wouldn’t Go Into Effect for 2 Years
Posted By Elizabeth Harrington On March 12, 2017 @ 5:00 am In Issues | No Comments

Defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, an idea floated by the Trump administration, would likely take two years to go into effect.

The funding for CPB, which receives roughly $450 million a year for public television and public radio, is allotted two years in advance. Any appropriations bill that did not include new funding for the CPB would mean that it would not be defunded until fiscal year 2019.

President Donald Trump is expected to release his budget blueprint on Monday. Transition officials have signaled that the president plans dramatic cuts, including privatizing the CPB and eliminating both the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities.

 

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[geronl]

Something that should have been done decades ago

[Sanguine]

OK, so let's get started now.

[Suppressed]

And it won't have much effect, as they get a lot of their funding from universities and state-allocated funds...i.e., fees from their programming being broadcast by individual stations.

[Smokin Joe]

Okay, if cutting their budget by 495 million is only cutting it by 5%, that means they're spending 9.9 billion dollars a year over there, all together.

How much of the University slice of that pie is from Federal money?

(I'm still all for saving $495 million a year).

Where did the "other" 10% come from? (they aren't getting 990 million a year picking up pennies in parking lots).

[DCPatriot]

And it won't have much effect, as they get a lot of their funding from universities and state-allocated funds...i.e., fees from their programming being broadcast by individual stations.

You mean that the $541 MILLION dollars funded by the Federal Government only represents about 5% of their total annual source of funds?

[Doug Loss]

You mean that the $541 MILLION dollars funded by the Federal Government only represents about 5% of their total annual source of funds?

You're missing the 11% that is listed as "CPB and public broadcasting entities."  It's probably at least 10% when you figure that bit in.

[Smokin Joe]

You're missing the 11% that is listed as "CPB and public broadcasting entities."  It's probably at least 10% when you figure that bit in.

How much university money that goes there is just NPR grants laundered through higher ed money?

[Suppressed]

How much university money that goes there is just NPR grants laundered through higher ed money?

Lots of the university money comes to NPR via the purchase of national programming.

[mountaineer]

If public broadcasting is  so essential and such a national treasure,  why the heck can't it support itself?

[Emjay]

OK, so let's get started now.

Right.  No reason to say, 'oh well.'  NPR would not make it on its own.  I've tried to listen to it.  The announcers all have to go to golf announcer school, where they learn that quiet, whispery voice ... this is just between you and me and the golf ball.

Their funny segments are painfully corny and I think they throw in some classical music .
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[Fishrrman]

"Defunding NPR Likely Wouldn’t Go Into Effect for 2 Years"

I don't care if it takes two years.
Get the ball rolling NOW!

[Hondo69]

If public broadcasting is  so essential and such a national treasure,  why the heck can't it support itself?

That's a darned good question.

After Juan Williams was fired at NPR there was a lot of discussion about cutting funding.  And naturally PBS also became part of the conversation.  The only argument from the Left that I could make out was that they are almost self-sufficient now.  In a few more years they will be fully self-sufficient and cutting funding would probably make sense.  That was in 2010.

[Suppressed]

Conservatives should be applying pressure at state level, for universities, etc.

[rodamala]

I tune in NPR every so often to see what the left is doing.  Last Friday I was heading up to the Reservation to get my tax-free diesel fuel and cigarettes and Bob Costas and the other liberal nitwits were carrying on, crying and whining about how Scott Pruitt as head of the EPA is going to destroy the planet... talking all the communist talking points of global warming and settled science and "hundreds of thousands" of climiate scientists "agreeing" that climate change is "real".  They were fit to be tied.

I smiled.

[DCPatriot]

I tune in NPR every so often to see what the left is doing.  Last Friday I was heading up to the Reservation to get my tax-free diesel fuel and cigarettes and Bob Costas and the other liberal nitwits were carrying on, crying and whining about how Scott Pruitt as head of the EPA is going to destroy the planet... talking all the communist talking points of global warming and settled science and "hundreds of thousands" of climiate scientists "agreeing" that climate change is "real".  They were fit to be tied.

I smiled.

I listen to    http://www.weta.org/fm as an alternative to talk radio or sports talk.

They get more political when the sun goes down.

Hope they'll be forced to conduct quarterly fund-a-thons once the Federal $$$ dry up.

[Hondo69]

They were fit to be tied.

I smiled.

Life's little pleasures

[jmyrlefuller]

If public broadcasting is  so essential and such a national treasure,  why the heck can't it support itself?

Why, in this age of the Internet, do we have this boondoggle of a public broadcasting system at all?

Other countries run their national networks from the top down (BBC and the CBC are the best known examples). Everything's centralized. The federal government owns all the stations and programs them. We here in America, on the other hand, somehow have let a bizarre amalgam of states, colleges, municipalities, and "public broadcasting authorities" (basically private companies) call themselves public broadcasters, pay independent (again, basically private) content providers like NPR and PRI for programs, and act like it's something worth having.

It's silliness. NPR is not public radio. (They even dropped "public radio" from their legal name a few years back.) PBS is not public television. NASA TV? That's public TV.

NPR and PBS may be a lot of things. Call them noncommercial television, sure... but they're hardly "public."

[240B]

I think in the broadcasting industry the term 'public' actually means 'socialist'. These words are interchangeable. And that is apropos. Dictators and tyrants all through history have always claimed that their dictates and brutalities were for the public good. And the American Left has this same philosophy today. I think it is more than obvious that if the Left could use force to cram their agenda down the throat of America, not only would they do it, but they would certainly say that everything they do, no matter how repressive and brutal it may be, is all for the 'public' good.

But also, when I hear that 495 million dollars is 5% of their billion dollar buget, I am very interested to know how many dollars they are spending per listener. These stations aren't exactly popular in a commercial sense. So where is all that money going? It may be impossible to ever know how many real users CPB has, because so many people lie to appear intelligent and elite. If you ask an average person how they feel about NPR and PBS, the most common answer is, I love those stations. Really? But if you follow up by asking them where to tune to pick up NPR, nobody knows where it is on the dial.

The massive budget of CPB, combined with the handful of actual listeners, makes me wonder if something else isn't going on. I want to know how much of their budget, through whatever circuitous route it takes, winds up in the pockets of politicians, political parties, or leftist organizations and leftist groups in general.

[geronl]

Why, in this age of the Internet, do we have this boondoggle of a public broadcasting system at all?

BBC is a wasteful socialist dinosaur

[240B]

BBC is a wasteful socialist dinosaur

NPR is much more like radio was before television. It doesn't fit in the modern world except for a handful of people. I'm surprised it has lasted this long. NPR likely would not have lasted but for government subsidies and tax deductible donations, which is a secondary form of government support.