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As others have said, the big guys (WGBH in Boston, WETA in DC, etc) will have minimal impact since they have a large pool of donors. But the little guys will s
by atonse 1y ago
As others have said, the big guys (WGBH in Boston, WETA in DC, etc) will have minimal impact since they have a large pool of donors.
But the little guys will suffer more. Ultimately, I think we can all agree that we hope the impact won't be catastrophic as far as the number of listeners impacted.
- starkparker 1y agoYep. Public media operations in rural and small-city markets are often as small as one full-time employee and cover large spans of territory. A cut to each of those stations might be as small as $150k but could represent much of their ability to do much more than minimal playback of out-of-market packages (which also degrade since many are published in part or full through CPB grants).
- kulahan 1y agoMy guess is that things will largely continue as they have been, but we'll get a lot fewer of those cute little stories about a random one-off issue in a town of 300 people or whatever. Probably not the biggest loss if I'm right, but still a major bummer, and yet another connection between the rural and the urban is severed.
- Tryk 1y agoI think people are interested in local news, so the gap will certainly be replaced but by monied interests, e.g. Sinclair [1] or similar. Who will promote their narrative and further polarize the information landscape. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group