Posted on 10/26/2010 10:48:46 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Congress awarded the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) $533.3 million in fiscal year 2010, $420 million of which was distributed to public radio and television stations in all 50 states and U.S. territories, according to the CPB Appropriation Request and Justification report.
Taxpayer money for the CPB is allocated through the Department of Commerce.
According to the CPB report, 583 public radio and television stations nationwide received $420 million in FY 2010. For example, KQED TV in San Francisco received $3,734,192 and KCET TV in Los Angeles got $4,066,328 that year. WAMU, the public radio station in Washington, D.C., received $829,207.
(The amount requested by the Obama administration for those 583 stations in fiscal year 2011 is $430 million; for fiscal year 2012 it goes up to $445 million; and in FY 2013, $460 million.)
In addition to the $420 million given to public radio and TV stations, the CPB received an additional $68.3 million in fiscal 2010: $36 million for digital conversion, $25 million for “radio interconnection,” $25 million for “station fiscal stabilization,” and another $27.3 million from the Department of Education’s federal budget for “Ready to Learn” programming.
The CPB was created by the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, which has been amended over the years. The act states it is in the “public interest” to have public radio and television stations that will use “electronic media to address national concerns and solve local problems through community programs and outreach programs.”
In the wake of National Public Radio’s firing of news analyst Juan Williams on Oct. 20, some Republicans have called for an end to federal funding of NPR, which indirectly receives federal funding from the CPB through programming fees it collects from radio stations funded by CPB and through competitive grants the CBP awards to NPR each year.
Williams was fired from NPR because of remarks he made on Fox News Channel’s “the O’Reilly Factor” on Oct. 18.
On that show, Williams said, "Look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."
News analyst Juan Williams appears on the "Fox & Friends" television program in New York on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010, after he was fired by National Public Radio. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Those expressing support for defunding NPR include former Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), former governors Sarah Palin (R-AK) and Mike Huckabee (R-Ala.), and both minority leaders in the House and Senate, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio).
NPR never fed a hungry child.
$esame $treet must be Easy $treet..............
If gov’t funds are only 4% of the total, what the hell is their total??? Even if it was all....$500+ MILLION???? Really?
What do they do with all that cash?? Investigation anyone?
If we would storm the public school system, K-12, university and academia, there would never have even been NPR and PBS! We have abdicated our responsibility to truth, the Republic, capitalism, religion, etc., while ceding gerneration after generation over to marxist/socialist factories down the block from where we live.
Looking at symptoms here, while ignoring the source, public education. BTW, thanks for the post.
If they are funded with tax money and have to be impartial,they can then get funds privately from people like Soros and go full frontal against any conservative. Think about that, If someone was to buy them, they could have a ready made national tv network that is already in place.
I would like to know how that would work?
NPR never fed a hungry child.
oh.....THAT’s good!!
I tempted to call into some pledge drives with that line...
Maybe they’ve got a big monthly power bill...
With direct support and tax deductions, the US support public media $1 billion per year. Cut it
What can I say, but what I say about virtually everything we have been blessed by the left, and that’s defund ‘em. Shut ‘em down.
If it’s promoted by the Left, it’s worthless to our society overall.
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