Cuts to public media will smash budgets of some local radio stations

NPR ^ | 7/20/25 | Frank Langfitt

[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.

[Joe Boucher]

If they can’t make it in the free market then change formats.
Maybe become less biased.

[wetgundog]

Too Bad, So Sad, I’m Glad we are saving taxpayer’s money~

[Nik Naym]

We have one here also. Though they will sell advertising, I almost never hear any. They are non profit and run by volunteers, as the one you described. They run talk shows, mainly with a conservative and/or Christian slant. Too bad they are an AM “daytimer”. But they run all night on the interwebs.

https://thebell1000.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLNL

[The Great RJ]

Allegheny Mountain is not an NPR member station, but it does run NPR's daily newscast, a quick run down of top stories.

So these poor folks will be deprived of NPRs daily propaganda and that is somehow a problem? Just how many of this stations vast audience has no other source for news?