President Trump Signs Executive Order to Defund NPR and PBS

[Akita Suggagaki]

I like the Sunday night mysteries.

 

[Hans Blaster]

I’ve always been told that federal and state grants are just a small portion of PBS funding. Must not be true

Again, it wasn't PBS that shut down. It was the NJ public TV broadcaster which used the name "PBS NJ".

Funding for PBS member stations included significant funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) which is a non-profit that is primarily funded by the federal government, or at least it was. The budget reconciliation act zeroed funding to the CPB and the CPB is currently winding down their operations.

 

[rjs330]

Again, it wasn't PBS that shut down. It was the NJ public TV broadcaster which used the name "PBS NJ".

Funding for PBS member stations included significant funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) which is a non-profit that is primarily funded by the federal government, or at least it was. The budget reconciliation act zeroed funding to the CPB and the CPB is currently winding down their operations.

Doesn't change anything about what was said.

 

[FredVB]

When media is no longer free to share information fascism will be in place. That is not so far away, and how much is being done to stop that?

 

[DaisyDay]

It's some sort of streaming "device"? (I don't have any streaming.)

Roku is a particular brand of smart tv, with smart meaning wifi enabled with certain built-in apps. Roku also makes streaming devices that can be plugged into dumb tvs if they have ports (USB, HDMI, etc.).

When I lived in Manhattan, broadcast tv was problematic because the signals bounced off the buildings and got duplicated, with ghost images overlaying the main image. Before I got cable, I couldn't tell if people and monsters were supposed to have two or three eyes (I liked Dr. Who). In the mountains, signals get blocked altogether in places.

 

[BCP1928]

All beside the point, really. Getting the signal out is the least part of the problem. It can even come from overseas.* All streaming does is save the electric bill for a broadcast transmitter, which is usually locally funded, anyway. The effect of cutting CPB funding is on paying the production cost of the "fun" stuff--dramas, documentaries, nature programs.

Conservatives don't really understand how it works. I was listening to the news on public broadcasting before anyone ever thought of CPB and I expect to continue to do so now that it''s gone.

*Does anybody still remember Wolf Man Jack?

 

[rjs330]

All beside the point, really. Getting the signal out is the least part of the problem. It can even come from overseas.* All streaming does is save the electric bill for a broadcast transmitter, which is usually locally funded, anyway. The effect of cutting CPB funding is on paying the production cost of the "fun" stuff--dramas, documentaries, nature programs.

Conservatives don't really understand how it works. I was listening to the news on public broadcasting before anyone ever thought of CPB and I expect to continue to do so now that it''s gone.

*Does anybody still remember Wolf Man Jack?

I remember him. Im still not seeing though why this is a taxpayers responsibility. Especially when all those things are found everywhere else.