[Frank Drebin]

Because the socialists must ensure that the faithful hear the call to prayer everyday.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Just thinking about it gives me that heebie-jeebies. Thank God that's one place I'll never visit.

[Revel]

The less NPR we have in the world then a better place the world will be.

[albie]

It’s brain washing on an epic scale. New England’s find NPR as necessary as a goose down coat.

[real saxophonist]

Know what I hate about NPR stations? Theyll play one movement of a Symphony, then announce, that was (for example) the 5th Symphony by Beethoven.

NO! That was the First Movement! Yeah, it is the most recognized , but that's only one.

The Symphony has four movements.

[Dr. Sivana]

Back in the days of VHF and UHF TV, you could cover the area with a single TV station, but the networks would put two TV stations in the region.

That is NOT true. For one thing, if you are in New Haven, CT and your antenna is pointed to New York to get Mets games on WOR-TV Channel 9 or Yankees games on WPIX Channel 11, you will certainly not be able to get Channel 30 (NBC) WHNB/WVIT New Britain (most used their low wattage repeater Channel 59 in West Haven). Even a VHF station like Channel 3 (WTIC/WFSB) in Hartford, would get snow, even with a rotor depending on elevation.

Massachusetts is one of the three southern New England states, and you wouldn't have a dream of getting WSBK TV 38 for Red Sox/Bruins games without cable, even in central Connecticut. In my home town of Wallingford, you had to do gymnastics to get Channel 22 (NBC)/Channel 40 (ABC) (Springfield, MA). I wanted to watch Burns and Allen, and they were broadcast regularly on Channel 57 (PBS) in Springfield. Higher frequencies means less distance, and even though he custom built me a Channel 57 YAGI antenna, I still could not get it in. Channels 6, 10, and 12 in Providence, RI were also impossible.

That said, even though they were all on UHF, the several PBS stations were pretty clear (Channel 24, Hartford; Channel 49, Bridgeport; there was a repeater at channel 71, in New Haven)

Keep in mind not everyone had a high gain roof antenna, and some people lived on the bottom of a hill, which can impede reception. Few had rotors, which was useful in Connecticut because of stations in all directions.

[Flatus I. Maximus]

It’s a jobs program for otherwise unemployable Journalism (broadcast emphasis) majors. At least Journalism (print emphasis) majors usually can type quickly and construct coherent sentences well enough to be useful in office jobs.

[UnwashedPeasant]

They are flush with free money from us deplorable workers.

[real saxophonist]

I went to two colleges. One radio station was student-run, I Had a Jazz show every week.

The other is an NPR station.

[crusty old prospector]

Let the libtards there pay for their own propaganda. Why should I subsidize them?

[Dr. Sivana]

If you wanted to splurge on radio stations, you could make the case for as many as four: one for Connecticut

An FM radio station in Hartford (central location) would not come in clearly in Stamford. I am doubtful about Salisbury, New London, and Stafford Springs.

You could have repeaters, but several of the "NPR" stations are actually college stations (e.g. WSHU-Bridgeport, Sacred Heart University), and would exist whether they were formally NPR or not.

[11th_VA]

Here’s why Alaska voted against the bill. In rural parts of Alaska, NPR is the only radio station around and internet/cell service is limited. They provide real time coverage of weather, high school sports, local government, fish forecasts etc. unfortunately, NPR bundles their LGBTQ + national news with the local service they provide.

[mikey_hates_everything]

Eliminate NPR’s “non-commercial” status and make it pay for all the FM spectrum it uses on the low side of the band.

[Seaplaner]

Perhaps similar to union featherbedding, more stations than needed to provide easy, high paying positions, albeit duplicative ones, for fellow traveling leftists?

As an aside, one wonders what this news might do for their annoying $$ drives.

[GingisK]

The population is sparse up there for them to support radio stations directly. That is the truth.

[faithhopecharity]

we have several mostly-duplicative npr stations

one does original (music) programming
so that’s fine

another noticably does cover local community news so that’s okay

the others? the big ones that undoubtably soak up the most tax money? worthless, should be shut down or at least taken off the taxpayers’ backs

[stanne]

There was the car guys. They’re gone.

There was Lynn Rosetta Casper cooking show

Gone

Make them raise their own money. Bannon does it. Rogan does it

Tim Dillon Conan

The left can raise their own funds

Free republic operates on its own.

[subterfuge]

You have to have some way of “spreading the money around” as that communist Barry obama said.

[RetiredArmy]

When the money goes, they will start losing them as the Moola dries up.

[PGR88]

Why do we need so many NPR stations?

Because without "Antiques Roadshow" on 24/7, American society could possibly collapse?