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Public television needs funds for digital conversion
Mpls (red)Star Tribune ^
| 3/23/02
| James R. Pagliarini
Posted on 03/23/2002 10:11:24 AM PST by Valin
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:36:22 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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For five years, public television stations across the country have been preparing themselves for television in the 21st century -- digital television. Forty-four states have committed more than $460 million to help their public stations make the conversion to digital broadcasting.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: whinealert
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posted on
03/23/2002 10:11:24 AM PST
by
Valin
To: Valin
I need funds for a Learjet.
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posted on
03/23/2002 10:19:49 AM PST
by
dighton
To: Valin
tell them to sell commercials or hold yet more pledge drives
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posted on
03/23/2002 10:21:47 AM PST
by
GeronL
To: GeronL
hold yet more pledge drives....AAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!
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posted on
03/23/2002 10:22:54 AM PST
by
Valin
To: Valin
Call your State Rep's and ask how much your state gave?? then cuss them out!
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posted on
03/23/2002 10:23:20 AM PST
by
GeronL
To: Valin
Terrific! Millions of dollars so we can see 5 minutes of a "digitized" Victor Borge concert followed by 30 minutes of "digitied" begging.
To: Valin
Big Bird's introduction to the free market is way overdue. Let him compete or die.
Can you imagine the shrieking we would hear if the tables were turned, and PBS/NPR was an arm of the GOP?
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posted on
03/23/2002 10:24:38 AM PST
by
watchin
To: Valin
Its past time we privatized the left!
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posted on
03/23/2002 10:28:40 AM PST
by
GeronL
To: grumpster-dumpster
AAAGGGGHHHHH!!!! But I repeat myself.
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posted on
03/23/2002 10:43:06 AM PST
by
Valin
To: Valin
I give public TV enough money in the form of taxes. I'm not going to write them a check. They should be privatized and have to survive in the market economy like everybody else.
To: Valin
AARRRGGGGHHH BUMP!
To: Valin
Personally I think PBS could go back to black and white and sock puppets. Who needs them?
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posted on
03/23/2002 11:00:45 AM PST
by
gaelwolf
To: Valin
Supply and demand. If the demand exists, let those demanding pay the freight. There is no divine right to public broadcasting.
To: NoControllingLegalAuthority
Tennessee's PBS TV says it can go digital STATE WIDE with just $6.5M. Hubby who did a stint as a broadcast engineer for a PBS station in Evansville, IN says NO WAY can they go digital state wide for $6.5M. It would take that amount for just WKNO in Memphis to go digital!
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posted on
03/23/2002 3:23:01 PM PST
by
GailA
To: Valin
Every day, public television serves more people more often than any other public or nonprofit organization in Minnesota. Yes, but does anyone watch them?
To: dighton
I need funds for a Learjet.I do too. Where do we apply?
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