$7 million ‘dues’ to PBS?
Why is the government supporting this channel if the stations are paying tht much money????
Congress provides monty to the local stations — tax money that you and I supply. The local stations have to pay dues to PBS in order to obtain the right to broadcast its programming, and so the local stations use the money provided to them by Congress to pay PBS. This is how PBS can claim it gets “very little federal money” with a straight face. The local stations are the middle men.