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Calling most of items commercial is a willful misconstruction of the structure and methods use by NPR. Corporate sponsorships is functionally no different than
by Aloha 10y ago
Calling most of items commercial is a willful misconstruction of the structure and methods use by NPR. Corporate sponsorships is functionally no different than individual member contributions at the station level, station dues are how costs are apportioned and passed on to member stations.
However, If NPR is using excess satellite airtime to carry non-NPR programming, that could be considered commercial activity, yes.
- jsprogrammer 10y agoFrom the view of NPR, revenue from "station dues and fees", primarily come from charging for access to NPR content, not member donations. It is strictly commercial activity: NPR is producing content and selling it. I think corporate sponsorships are different (if they were functionally the same as another category, they would have been aggregated there). For one, corporations get advertisement time.