In the early 70s. DC’s Public Radio at American Univ. (88.5) had a little, half hour of bluegrass on Sunday at Midnight. Marketing research showed that that one show represented a tremendous amount of the donations and so the bluegrass show was moved to prime time (3pm) and extended to 3 hours. Even more money came in.
The complaints were long and high-pitched. But the libs shows generated NO money. The lib audiences were small and they refused to donate. Once Public Radio started getting big money from the government, they moved the bluegrass show and others over to the internet and freed up the radio airwaves for politically biased stuff. They even played Diane Rehms TWICE a day.
I say let them sink or swim on the free market.
Tax monies comprise a small percentage of CPB budget. If it can’t get by without that, it needs to fold.
While it is saturated with leftist propaganda, the unconstitutionality of funding it would remain the same if it were totally unbiased or hard right. Doesn’t matter. Not...the...government’s...business.
Remind me again, just how much PBS gets from merchandising just Sesame Street?
Talk about welfare for billionaires.
Stop giving them taxpayers’ money and end the prohibition on CPB and its affiliates receiving money from memorabilia sales.