Posted on 07/20/2025 7:02:53 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Abby DuFour, WCHG news reporter and afternoon host of the show DuFour Du Jour, cues up the next song in her broadcast at the station in Hot Springs, Va.
DUNMORE, West Virginia — When President Trump pushed to slash federal funding for public media, he said a key reason was because he thinks PBS and NPR are politically biased. But some of those hardest hit by Congress' decision last week to clawback $1.1 billion in federal funds are small radio operations that provide local news and information to rural communities.
One is Allegheny Mountain Radio, a cooperative of three stations which cover Pocahontas County, West Virginia as well as Bath and Highland counties in Virginia. Allegheny Mountain is not an NPR member station, but it does run NPR's daily newscast, a quick run down of top stories.
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One is Allegheny Mountain Radio, a cooperative of three stations which cover Pocahontas County, West Virginia as well as Bath and Highland counties in Virginia. Allegheny Mountain is not an NPR member station, but it does run NPR's daily newscast, a quick run down of top stories.
Which are NOT politically biased, you knuckle-dragging, right-wing, conservative morons!
Sincerely, your betters at NPR.
Does anyone else remember the Air America radio network, which was openly liberal? They went out of business eventually. ,
So it makes you wonder, why was liberal talk radio not able to survive? Well conservative talk radio is able to survive in the capitalist market of radio stations?
Not biased at all with phrases like “clawback” to make it sound ominously predatory. Take your monotone butt on air and thank Americans for funding such trash over the years.
Stopped reading at NPR
Will the national staff, being paid millions take a pay cut?
Maybe I’m missing something, and if so, someone will let me know.
But aren’t these NPR stations proud of how they don’t run advertising? Perhaps if they sold advertising, their financial problems would be solved.
Then again, advertising is based on listenership and ratings. They may not make a heck of a lot of money in advertising if nobody is listening to their station.
A story is soon coming on the millions of NPR listeners and Republican voters that won’t vote for Republicans now that NPR/PBS funding is cut.
Completely factual and unbiased.
Meanwhile, Soros is purchasing radio stations...
“George Soros taking ‘shortcut’ to buy 200 US radio stations, FCC commissioner says”
A lot of the Old timer talk radio hosts are gone, besides Rush. G. Gordon Liddy, the Black Avenger, Bruce Williams, Tom Leykis, Michael Savage, Morton Downey Jr. Larry Lujack from WLS Chicago.
And the I-Man, Don Imus.
I don’t know anyone who listens to “local radio stations”. They all died out when Rush Limbaugh passed. God bless Rush Limbaugh. He took am radio back to heaven with him. He was only borrowing them from God.
Catholic charities and pot farms make a lot of money from child trafficking. I’m sure they’ll pony up for some advertising.
“Actually, they do. How many times have we seen telethons that seem to happen every other week?”
No kidding, but I think they’re more PR events than anything else.
“”A lot of the Old timer talk radio hosts are gone, besides Rush. G. Gordon Liddy, the Black Avenger, Bruce Williams, Tom Leykis, Michael Savage, Morton Downey Jr. Larry Lujack from WLS Chicago.””
Well, I never listened to any of those hosts. It was always Rush all the time, every day. And then it was Bongino, until he got all hyped up, his voice got high and agitated, and I had to turn the radio off...lol. I’m not impressed with his replacement, Vince, so now I just don’t bother.
Would be nice to have someone on Conservative talk radio that was at least close to what we had, but no. It’s pretty much another thing that has “gone with the wind” now. And of course you have leftist demons like Soros buying up radio stations. You don’t even have to ask ‘why’.
I love HAPPY stories like this about National Liberal Radio etc
Soros will help them. Guaranteed.
My wife spent twenty five years as a radio news reporter. Now she is a corporate media relations person.
She gets so angry when someone from NPR wants to do an interview. Those “reporters” work on stories for a week or more. They want to do multiple interviews for a 1 minute story. And they always walk in the door with an agenda and an attitude.
When she was working she had to do five to ten stories a day. And each one got two lines, some sound, and then a closing line.
I used to watch my wife work when I would go into the studio in the evening to take her to dinner. She was doing straight news and honestly, she did not ‘care’ about what the subject said. I mean, she had no agenda and just did it straight down the line.
NPR could use a little more of a bare bones budget. It would speed their broadcasts up a bit.
I do, and they did, however only after they stole a boatload of money raised for crippled children, and used it for their broadcast expenses!
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