A station staffed with counterculture members having trouble meeting accounting requirements? I’m shocked... etc.
Bummer.
I have argued for years that NPR/public radio stations should be allowed to sell advertising. Let them compete in the free market (of course, stations that CAN sell advertising would then have competition for their ad buys) and they should keep their hands OUT of our wallets (taxpayer money for CPB).
(Air America flopped because it couldn’t compete commercially with the liberal network we already had—NPR.) Also even though public radio is allegedly non-commercial they run donorships that sound like ads and get donations from various companies....one online list of NPR
“donors” included everything from Angie’s list to car companies to movie studios to “Fox Broadcasting Company”.
Yet the likes of WBAI can’t compete financially even with all this. (I’ll add some public radio studios, like that of WGBH Boston, are outfitted like the Taj Mahal. Big spenders...)