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Originally posted by Shawnski@Sep 29 2005, 06:37 PM
But DOES it? PBS is a listed funder of CPB!! By how much? (in both directions...
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Geeezus what an exercise in pointless minutiae gathering.
But...
http://www.cpb.org/aboutcpb/financials/budget/
Revenues
Federal Appropriation
$390,000,000
Estimated Interest
$3,250,000
Total
$393,250,000
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Allocation
$195,243,750
Direct grants to 350 local public television stations
$60,742,500
Direct grants to 800 local public radio stations
$67,518,750
Television programming grants
Does PBS give back money to the CPB? I don't know. Doesn't make a lot of sense though, does it? Something, I'm afraid, is erroneous.
I didn't yell fire. I was influenced by PBS employees.
"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.
I suppose it's possible that you know a lot more about it than this guy, but I doubt it.