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#1 2005-06-10 14:39:17
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Re: CPB Funding Cut
http://news.yahoo.com/s/washpost/public … use]Public broadcasting targeted by House
*CPB's budget being slashed from $400 million per year to $300 million.
In all, the cuts would represent the most drastic cutback of public broadcasting since Congress created the nonprofit CPB in 1967. The CPB funds are particularly important for small TV and radio stations and account for about 15 percent of the public broadcasting industry's total revenue.
Especial concerns for loss of unbiased (is there such a thing?) information resources. Well, perhaps less biased than usual.
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Small public radio stations, particularly those in rural areas and those serving minority audiences, may be the most vulnerable to federal cuts because they currently operate on shoestring budgets.
"This could literally put us out of business," said Paul Stankavich, president and general manager of the Alaska Public Radio Network, an alliance of 26 stations in the state that create and share news programming. "Almost all of us are down to the bone right now. If we lost 5 or 10 percent of our budgets in one fell swoop, we could end up being just a repeater service" for national news, with no funds to produce local content.
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