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When I was a teenager in the 90s an old guy took me aside and told me there'd be a day we get rid of public radio, and a day we'd have our final serving of affo
by digitalsushi 1y ago
When I was a teenager in the 90s an old guy took me aside and told me there'd be a day we get rid of public radio, and a day we'd have our final serving of affordable tuna sushi, and that after that, I'd be living in what he deemed the future.
One down.
- shmeeed 1y agoHate to say it, but... username checks out, I guess
- alostpuppy 1y agoI was curious about that as well.
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- tptacek 1y agoPublic television and public radio isn't going anywhere, at least not anywhere any of the rest of linear media isn't already going.
- vel0city 1y agoPublic television and public radio stations are literally being shut down, now, as per the topic article. Any station meaningfully relying on CPB is done.
- tptacek 1y agoI'm sure they will, but public funding for my local NPR and PBS stations amounts to something like 5% of their budget; they aren't going anywhere. NPR and PBS as institutions are more threatened by the Internet than they are by this funding cut. I don't support the cut, but I get the vibe that many people commenting on this thread don't know what CPB is.
- vel0city 1y ago> public funding for my local NPR and PBS stations Ah, so it's not going anywhere because it's not directly affecting your station. Got it. For many other people it is going away. This will affect your station though. Lots of stations spent a good bit of their budgets on content from PBS and NPR. While direct federal sources aren't a massive chunk of their income, revenues from member stations is. This will impact the content your local public TV and radio station will get.
- glial 1y agoIs there any way to find out which stations will be affected, and by how much (e.g. proportion of budget)?
- drozycki 1y agohttps://www.axios.com/2025/08/01/cpb-npr-pbs-corporation-public-broadcasting https://www.axios.com/2025/08/01/cpb-npr-pbs-corporation-pub... Some stations will lose 2%, others 98%.
- tptacek 1y agoI'm sure we're going to lose a lot of hyperlocal news and current event programming in Shreveport or whatever, but those programs have tiny audiences (even relative to their media market). Most of what we think of as PBS and NPR programming is delivered principally over the Internet now, not via local broadcast stations.
- bpt3 1y agoThe people who voted for the politicians implementing this generally live in those areas, so I think everyone is getting what they wanted on the whole? To be clear, I am not in favor of these cuts, but nothing is preventing state, local or private contributions from keeping these stations on the air.
- JeremyNT 1y agoOf course, if you live in a large metro the local stations will survive due to large numbers of wealthy and middle class benefactors. This is not necessarily so if you live in a typical red state middle size city or less. Somewhat ironically a lot of the extreme cuts (this included) only serve to reinforce the status of major blue state metros as more desirable, since they have more resources available to fill the gaps left by federal austerity.
- timr 1y ago> Somewhat ironically a lot of the extreme cuts (this included) only serve to reinforce the status of major blue state metros as more desirable, since they have more resources available to fill the gaps left by federal austerity. If the people in the red states aren't willing to pay for it, it would seem that they don't think it's desirable. Capitalism is funny that way. I get that you're trying to say that the pie is smaller overall, but the principle still applies.
- perfectviking 1y agoIt's not that they aren't willing to pay for it. When you actually ask them, they often do support paying for these things.
- timr 1y ago> When you actually ask them, they often do support paying for these things. Great! It isn't a problem, then. Again, capitalism is funny that way.
- mulmen 1y agoWe have a capitalist economy, not a capitalist society. The government exists to fill gaps where the market fails. CPB is one example of this. USPS is another. People who look at these organizations like businesses are fools.
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- wffurr 1y agoWhat's happening to tuna sushi?
- annoyinglawyer 1y agoIdk where you're living, but where I am, fresh tuna has gone from $16.00 a # to $25.00 a # in only the last couple years.
- JohnMakin 1y agoTuna, at least bluefin, is definitely not too far behind.