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Hold on, 1/3 of what? What funding paid the dues back to CPB? My local affiliate breaks their funding down as 50% member support, 40% corporate/charitable unde
by relaxing 4y ago
Hold on, 1/3 of what? What funding paid the dues back to CPB?
My local affiliate breaks their funding down as 50% member support, 40% corporate/charitable underwriting, 10% state/local govt funding. Maybe other NPR affiliates also get federal grants, but this one doesn’t.
Seems like we’re back to a pretty small fraction of funding for the US State to exert hard control over the content produced.
- PathOfEclipse 4y agoAccording to these links, in 2021 it ended up being 70 million of taxpayer money out of a total revenue of 300 million: https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3551625-the-time-has-come-defund-the-hopelessly-biased-npr/ https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3551625-the-time-has-co... https://www.statista.com/statistics/706290/npr-revenue/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/706290/npr-revenue/ So, as a correction it's closer to ~22.5%. Still a not insignificant amount.
- relaxing 4y agoA significant portion of that is state and local money