Because without "Antiques Roadshow" on 24/7, American society could possibly collapse?
Antiques Road Show is not NPR. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting pays local radio stations to buy NPR programming. Those local radio stations can still buy content from other sources, although most use it to buy content from other leftist government propaganda news outlets, like Public Radio International. This is why NPR is so panicking about losing Congressional funding while simultaneously insisting they don’t get THAT much federal funding.
Oh and the local stations which get funding from the CPB are required by law to buy a certain amount of content from NPR. It’s pass-through funding. If you accept $X from CPB, you must spend Y% of $X and Z% of your total budget on NPR broadcasting.
PBS carries the Roadshow. NPR is a different corporation that the PBS stations host. A difference in details. PBS does have decent content sometimes like Masterpiece-Mystery. NPR is pure Marxist propaganda garbage. Even worse is Pacifica News. If you can imagine that