Corporation for Public Broadcasting Shuts Down After Trump Ends Funds
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting's board voted to close the organization after 58 years after the Trump Administration ended funding.
  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 days ago

    A bunch of conservative folks felt that some media that received funding from the CPB — e.g. NPR — promoted issues on the left.

    I’d say that it was probably center-left, but not by much, and very little of NPR’s funding actually came from the CPB.

    A lot of radio in the US is, as far as I can tell, on the right, like, Christian religious stuff is a very substantial portion of it. I suppose if you’re fighting for mindshare among the rural public, you probably don’t much want competition.

    searches

    https://www.insideradio.com/free/format-counts-2024-country-still-leads-christian-religion-growing/article_0620c096-c742-11ef-8a86-ef7523510a36.html

    Rank Format - Number of Stations Dec 23 Jan 24 Dec 24 Gain/Loss YOY Gain/Loss YTD
    1 Country 2,164 2,163 2,168 4(0.2%) 5(0.2%)
    2 Religion (Teaching, Variety) 2,036 2,037 2,072 36(1.7%) 35(1.7%)
    3 News/Talk 2,005 2,000 1,984 -21(-1.1%) -16(-0.8%)
    4 Contemporary Christian 1,363 1,366 1,407 44(3.1%) 41(2.9%)

    No count of NPR stations that I can quickly find, but about three-and-a-half pages here:

    https://legacy.npr.org/stations/pdf/nprstations.pdf

    Maybe very roughly 900 NPR stations, as a quick estimate based on how many are in a single column.

    EDIT:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

    Project 2025 proposes reconsidering the accommodations given to journalists who are members of the White House Press Corps.[6] It proposes defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private, nonprofit corporation that provides funding for the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio, as “good policy and good politics” because it accounts for “half a billion dollars squandered on leftist opinion each year”.[100]: 246 [189]

    It also entertains the idea of revoking NPR stations’ noncommercial status, forcing them to move outside the 88–92 range on the FM dial, which could then be taken by religious programming.[190] Brendan Carr, who wrote the article on the Federal Communications Commission in Project 2025,[100] was appointed by Trump to lead the FCC, and subsequently launched an investigation into NPR and PBS, in accordance with Project 2025.[191]