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yah, it's so easy and you still got it wrong. you've listed 2017's version of the average member station funding, not npr's funding. even so, only 4% of that is
by clairity 5y ago
yah, it's so easy and you still got it wrong. you've listed 2017's version of the average member station funding, not npr's funding. even so, only 4% of that is public, while npr itself gets no direct public funding. note that that 4% is accounted for under about 1/3 of npr's funding, so an upper limit of 4/3 of 1% to npr (if all member station revenue went to npr).
this quote comes directly from npr (see concluding statement on this page[0]):
> "On average, less than 1% of NPR's annual operating budget comes in the form of grants from CPB and federal agencies and departments."
[0]: https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finance...
- alar44 5y agoNo, that is NPRs overall funding. The point is that no, most of it doesn't come from corporations.
- clairity 5y ago37% of npr's revenues is direct corporate sponsorship. another 1/3 comes from member sations. of that third, ~20% is direct ad buys and ~40% is individual contributions, except "individuals" really means wealthy (corporately interested) donors[0]. so add it all up, and you're comfortably over 50%, without considering any of the other little influenced bits of revenue you could throw in. so yes, that's most. [0]: "As of September 30, 2021, 13 donors comprise approximately 77% of the gross pledges receivable balance.", from page 31 of their FY2020 consolidated financials