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Outline of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's FY2014 budget: http://www.cpb.org/files/aboutcpb/financials/budget/FY2014-Operating-Budget.pdf http://www.c
by gingerbread-man 10y ago
Outline of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's FY2014 budget: http://www.cpb.org/files/aboutcpb/financials/budget/FY2014-Operating-Budget.pdf http://www.cpb.org/files/aboutcpb/financials/budget/FY2014-O...
Out of a total budget of $445m:
~66% (292m) is distributed via direct grants to local public television and radio stations.
~17% (74m) goes to television programming grants.
~7% (30m) goes to radio programming.
~11% (59m) goes to system support and administration.
- gingerbread-man 10y agoI'd be curious to hear from someone who has worked at a local public broadcasting affiliate about what their budgets look like. I enjoy state-level public radio, but I don't watch a lot of state or local public television programming. It seems like a lot of the arguments for funding PBS/CPB have been centered around their national programming, e.g. Nova and Sesame Street. But if the proposed cuts are "across the board," state and local public television programs would bear a greater share of the burden. Maybe we should be talking more about those.
- maxlybbert 10y agoIt's a simple strategy. Everybody knows "Sesame Street." Fewer people know, say, "North Carolina NOW" or "Wild Nevada." On the other hand, somebody should do local stories about local shows. Each PBS station should highlight its own programming, but they would reach a different audience (including potential new fans) by getting other channels to include a story on their local news.