What if Public Radio disappeared?

WGBH Public Broadcast Network in Boston ^ | December 20, 2016 | WGBH Website

[wardaddy]

No Terry Gross or Linda Wertheimer?

Or NPRs commie business program Marketwatch

But reality

Most nauseating libtard on Radio TV or Movies is without question Lena Dunham

Certifiable freak show issues chick

[Gay State Conservative]

There's one thing that we can thank NPR for.On the day after Teddy Kennedy died there was a guest on the Diane Rhelm Show who was a good friend of Teddy's as well as a firmer Editor of Newsweek.The show,needless to say,was full of tears and lamentations.However,at one point the conversation turned a little brighter when the moderator noted that Teddy had a *wonderful* sense of humor.The guest responded by noting that it was so wonderful that he,Teddy,used to make jokes about Chappaquiddick to his staff and others.

With God as my Judge....he said it.As of a year or so ago it was still on the NPR website.

[Honorary Serb]

I love Public TV specials like Masterpiece, Nova, Nature, etc. Nowadays, I view them online.

I also listen to WCRB Classical, mainly online as well.

But as for NPR News, I might as well read the fake-news, globalist, anti-Christian, and anti-Trump screeds in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Boston Globe, etc.!!!! They’re all basically the same. PHOOEY!!!!

[SandRat]

It might bring radio broadcasting back to life.

[Cecily]

I would miss the classical and jazz music shows I like (no political commentary whatsoever). I also like a lot of the music on “Prairie Home Companion,” and I think the show is better now that Garrison K. is finally gone.

[albie]

Gee! Where would I get “The Greatest of Frank Sinatra” for only $400, along with a PBS coffee mug?

[clintonh8r]

I would miss PBS, but not NPR.

[4yearlurker]

I listen to classical music here in the Pittsburgh,PA. area. I like Baroque Sunday Morning then Thistle & Shamrock. Otherwise I could just as easy listen to AM oldies stations.

[Spktyr]

The BBC already has its own cable channel - BBC America.

[ataDude]

I’m with you... no change whatsoever.

[x]

Like shortwave did?

The world won't suddenly shut down without them.

[G Larry]

The tree in the forest that didn’t fall only makes the sound of the wind blowing through it.

If that tree were to disappear no one would notice.

[faithhopecharity]

Afire and nova and occasionally frontline can do good programs. They can just as well do them on regular tv Let’s shut down pbs it’s a waste of our money and potentially very dangerous for govt to be in the “news and information budiness”

[Spktyr]

You can get more of them and faster from online sources - or just go watch BBC America. The BBC now has their own distribution networks in the US.

[Spktyr]

Such shows are available online at little or no cost in higher quality than is possible for NPR.

[Red Badger]

Would anybody notice?..................

[mowowie]

Imagine it?
How about dream it?

[longtermmemmory]

Public radio has a TAX EXEMPT status

Take away the TAX EXEMPT status.

[Baynative]

Public Radio is an audio safe room for liberals who don’t want their beliefs questioned, or truth invading their space.

[OttawaFreeper]

I like KJAZZ from Los Angeles (listen to it online) but got a bit annoyed with them when they got rid of Chuck Cecil’s Swingin’ Years program on Sunday mornings and replaced it with someone else doing the Big Band music. Up in my area, we have WPBS from Watertown, NY for PBS. My mother is fed up with the constant showings of Lawrence Welk and wonders why it is on way before “Austin City Limits”. I like some of the local programming devoted to 1000 Islands history and culture, but have not watched much in years as we get our Brit shows with Vision TV (non profit run by the private Canadian broadcasters).

It would be cool to have a “PBS Classics” channel set up for the Brit classics or Agronsky or “Firing Line” or “Once Upon a Classic” (hosted by Bill Bixby) or “Electric Company” and other titles many of us would remember.