[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.

[dangus]

>> An FM radio station in Hartford (central location) would not come in clearly in Stamford. <<

Nonsense. I got Hartford FM stereo just fine on the south shore of Long Island. Besides, NPR should be AM. I got New York AM just fine in Washington, and there’s (used to be?) quite a pool of Yankees fans who listen(ed?) to 770-AM NY down in Florida.

>> 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. <<

Yes, I make the argument that their communities and educational mission would be better served if they were NOT NPR stations.

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The Boston NPR stations have repeaters like that on Cape Cod, Nantucket (for the summer crowd), and even in Rhode Island.

[dangus]

Also, I feel you’re picking on a nit to justify a broader, invalid point. Let’s say it takes six stations to blanket New England with non-stop 24-7 government propaganda with a certain level of ease of tuning in and a certain level of clarity in the signal. That still means that almost 90% of NPR stations can be eliminated with no decline in service... and we’re talking only (allegedly) about 30% of their funding coming directly from taxpayer dollars.