Posted on 07/19/2025 9:03:53 AM PDT by Mariner
Ken Burns has made more than 30 documentaries and won multiple Emmys.
But without funding from public television, his educational programming such as "The Civil War" and "Baseball" might never have existed, he told "PBS News Hour" in an interview Thursday.
Even today, the acclaimed filmmaker whose works — including his upcoming project "The American Revolution" — are broadcast on PBS, said his films get around 20% of their budgets from the Corp. for Public Broadcasting, the body Congress recently voted to defund.
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They will cut any and everything the public values (Classical and Jazz music, Masterpiece Theater etc.) to keep as many jobs and shows as they can in the newsroom.
They, along with Late night, the WSJ and Murdoch won’t be going full force fake newsing the treason trials against Obama and Co about to take place
For one.
Burns is full of shit.
Real Jobs?
Trot out big bird for a day film.
Burns likely makes plenty of bucks from the sales of the videos and books of his documentaries. Sort of like Sesame Street doing the same thing with the toys and books and other such merchandise.
Well you can give a donation and not demand that their money comes from peoples paychecks.
Oh, noes! How would anyone know about The Civil War or baseball!!??
Series question, though. Does he receive any royalties or did he receive any sort of compensation for those productions?
ISN’T HE IN SYRIA NOW???
Was it really that much of their budget. I thought their income was mostly donations from mush-headed lefties.
What would also be neat would be to create a kind of “PBS Classic” channel that would feature original Masterpiece Theatre programs with Alistair Cooke or Mystery (Vincent Price and later Diana Rigg hosting) or Once Upon A Classic (Bill Bixby as host) and other PBS programs from the 1970s through 1990s era.
NPR and PBS will just run more leftist ads then they have been.
PBS and NPR have always been welfare for the rich. They should switch to a subsc4iption model and let their preferred demographic actually finance them.
The truth behind that lie is this: most of the money goes to the local stations. But the stations are required to pay substantial fees back to the mother organization . So it is a significant portion of their income, just laundered once to get to them
They won’t skip a beat...
Ken Burns should contribute. Sure as hell...they’re not going to dump him.
Crank out more tote bags and run another pledge drive.
If someone drives sober 1,000 times, they still can go to jail for the one time they drove drunk. NPR and PBS have made some good programs, but they have to be punished for their blatant leftist propaganda and lies.
“They will cut any and everything the public values (Classical and Jazz music, Masterpiece Theater etc.) to keep as many jobs and shows as they can in the newsroom.”
The alternate source for these: yousetube, yousetube, yousetube / brit box.
I enjoy classical concerts and some jazz but thankfully I have recordings and yousetube. Problems solved.
As for the likes of Nova, Nature etc. They will survive in other forms and reruns. Quality and meaningful will go on. Try Timeline on yousetube or any of many documentary feeds there. You will find a lifetime of programming.
Frontline, Independent Lens and the likes, well, so sorry.
Can we say goodbye to BBC world news at our cost and the Slanted News Network of PBS? I hope so.
There was a time when we had only one PBS station around here. Now we get three from Oklahoma and another three from Arkansas. Three tells me they are flush with money.
Want some other political news? Try C-spam.
I worked for KSKA/KAKM (PBS radio/TV)
The Ak state legislature curt 100% of the funding for Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau stations. This was in 1995.
They are still here.
Just saw an article in the local rag where rural AK stations are screaming foul.
Why, the station in Unalaska - a burg of 4.3K is down to just **3 full time staffers* in the newsroom.
Wave goodbye, a long time coming - too long.
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