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Searching for pennies: With the cut in federal funding public broadcasters are looking to cope
AP News ^ | Updated 11:10 PM CDT, July 17, 2025 | MARK THIESSEN and DAVID BAUDER

Posted on 07/18/2025 12:49:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Lauren Adams, general manager for KUCB public radio in Unalaska, Alaska, didn’t have much time to reflect on Congress, 4,000 miles away, stripping federal funding for public media this week. She’s been too busy working.

Sirens blared in the Aleutian Islands community Wednesday warning of a potential tsunami, with a voice over public loudspeakers urging the community’s 4,100 residents to seek higher ground immediately and tune into the radio — to Adams’ station.

At the same time in Washington, the Senate was voting on a measure that would eliminate nearly $1.1 billion that had already been appropriated for NPR and PBS — a process that didn’t end until early Thursday morning. The House completed the process in time for President Donald Trump to sign it before a Friday deadline.

Trump had called for the cuts, saying public media’s news programming was biased against him and fellow Republicans, and threatened GOP members of Congress with primary challenges if they didn’t fall in line.

Adams, her news director, a reporter and an intern kept broadcasting and updating KUCB’s social media feed until the danger passed. Then she made time for one more task — texting U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski and urging her to vote against the bill. Murkowski was one of two Republican senators, along with Susan Collins of Maine, to publicly dissent.

“I thought that it was such a telling story of why her constituents have a different relationship to public radio than maybe some other regions of the United States,” Adams said.

Hard decisions ahead for stations across the country

The federal money is appropriated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which distributes it to NPR and PBS. Roughly 70% of the money goes directly to the...

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They always told us federal dollars were just a small part of their budget.

Were they lying then, or are they lying now?

1 posted on 07/18/2025 12:49:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Trump Defunds Heroes! Film at 11.


2 posted on 07/18/2025 12:54:59 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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When Reagan tried cutting their budget, they went from being strongly anti-Reagan to going wall-to-wall Reagan hate, 24-7. I had been a regular listener since the 1977 or so, and my knowledge of the "liberal-conservative" axis was in the process of forming.

Before Reagan was elected, I loved NPR; listening to it was one of the few bright spots in my unhappy days.

After Reagan was elected, I began to notice the anti-Reagan bias, which started growing before he took office, and only got worse over time. By then I had discovered National Review, and so was sensitized to "media bias," but the rate at which it went from subtle, to obvious, to incessant and annoying, greatly increased after 1981.

After 1985 or so, I stopped listening to NPR at all, except occasionally Diane Rehm. Sometime in the early 90s, I completely stopped listening to them. Couldn't stand them.

3 posted on 07/18/2025 12:57:36 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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I used to enjoy listening to the local NPR classical music station, but they had Lefty news every hour and I finally stopped listening. Then I discovered Rush.


4 posted on 07/18/2025 12:59:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Fund Elmo or we’re all going to die!


5 posted on 07/18/2025 1:01:09 PM PDT by Orosius
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Before Rush, National Review was all there was.

I know Buckley was on PBS, but I found his presentation style annoying, and never watched him.


6 posted on 07/18/2025 1:04:41 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The 1 cent coin....soon to be discontinued like NPR.


7 posted on 07/18/2025 1:10:12 PM PDT by xp38
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Amazingly, they will cope.

The big-money progressives will not allow one of their main propaganda outlets to go broke. But it will use up some progressive money that would have gone to other evil pursuits.


8 posted on 07/18/2025 1:11:17 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: HYPOCRACY

Leave to the treasonous a-holes at AP to dig up an extreme fringe outlier example to paint a sob story


9 posted on 07/18/2025 1:16:45 PM PDT by iamgalt
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Oh, the huge manatee🤣🤣🤣! Notice this story is coming from AP. Who does NPR/PBS source the most? AP!!


10 posted on 07/18/2025 1:17:41 PM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Red Cross receives NO federal funding and look what that organization is able to do.

And none of it involves sitting around producing oral diarrhea and spreading propaganda either.


11 posted on 07/18/2025 1:28:32 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: ModelBreaker

IIRC, Joan Kroc gave NPR $225M in her will. Drop in the bucket, probably.


12 posted on 07/18/2025 1:33:21 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

NPR drives out other AM/FM stations because the Feds heavily subsidizes NPR.

If NPR has to shutdown, a private radio station will take over.


13 posted on 07/18/2025 1:43:46 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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“NPR drives out other AM/FM stations because the Feds heavily subsidizes NPR.”

NPR receives about 1% of its funding from the feds.

The member stations, about 10%.


14 posted on 07/18/2025 1:48:02 PM PDT by TexasGator (/i.. logo About Issues Projects Products Connect Subscribe Invest June 19, 2025 | Insight '1-1111 -)
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They’ll be fine. They serve a vital function. Their donors have billions.


15 posted on 07/18/2025 1:49:36 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: Orosius

Right? I haz a sadz. Not for Elmo because he’s outted himself as an anti-semitic commie but for those poor, redneck, backwoods, terbacky chewing flyovers....how will they ever cope without “weather alerts” and “free” leftist propaganda (that they never tune in to)?


16 posted on 07/18/2025 1:55:50 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: Orosius
Send money or Elmo gets it in the head.


17 posted on 07/18/2025 2:01:13 PM PDT by BipolarBob (The Weather Bureau announced they will shut down the entire Sharknado early warning system and staff)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Doesn't cost much to run this:


18 posted on 07/18/2025 2:04:29 PM PDT by fruser1
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Radio stations in Unalaska:
FM
https://radiostation.info/fm/unalaska-ak/

There are five stations, although two look to be repeaters.


19 posted on 07/18/2025 2:05:44 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable anima)
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To: xp38

They should do away with the nickel, too.


20 posted on 07/18/2025 2:21:19 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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