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NPR goes down in flames

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Posted By: Big Bopper, 7/19/2025 11:58:03 AM

The Republicans finally did something great that I thought they never would have the stones to do. They reduced the funding for the government-controlled media outfit called The Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Hallelujah! CPB was established half a century ago with the good intention of providing television and radio services to rural America in a day long before cable TV and megawatt radio stations made television and radio ubiquitous, and long, long before the internet made them obsolete. Fine.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: FLCracker 7/19/2025 12:20:40 PM (No. 1979620)
Not up there with keeping Hillary Clinton out of office, but it feels just as good.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: paral04 7/19/2025 12:37:02 PM (No. 1979631)
I used to listen to PBS because they played Classical Music and had a good commentator who talked about the Composer etc. And I watched the TV when they had British shows on. Now, they are useless and people can watch what they want on the Internet. I don't want my money spent on Left-Wing propaganda. Adios, amigos.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: 3XALADY 7/19/2025 1:12:49 PM (No. 1979655)
Is the government still collecting taxes for the REA to string electric lines to rural areas?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: JimBob 7/19/2025 1:39:57 PM (No. 1979665)
The PBS TV stations here in Mississippi have 5 sub-channels, and one of them, the '-4' subchannel, has a fixed image with the audio duplicating the Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB) radio broadcasts. The MPB radio stations have the regular analog broadcast and two digital 'HD Radio' sub-channels. HD-1 duplicates the analog MPB program, the same ol' NPR garbage. BUT..... MPB HD-2 on weekdays plays classical music from midnight to 6PM, then jazz from 6PM to midnight. The '-4' TV channel broadcasts the same as the analog and HD-1 MPB/NPR garbage, BUT, the '-4' TV stations, on their 'second audio channel' (which on many TV stations is used to broadcast the TV soundtrack in a different language) duplicates the MPB-HD-2 classical music program. THAT program, classical music, then jazz from 6PM to midnight, on the HD-2 radio channels and '-4' TV second audio, is the ONLY part of the whole system of programming that I use. They can Pull the Plug on the rest of it, and I would never know.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: MickTurn 7/19/2025 1:52:33 PM (No. 1979678)
GOOD, the National Pubic Reprobates takes a major HIT!
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Reply 6 - Posted by: padiva 7/19/2025 10:32:26 PM (No. 1979822)
I guess that there won't be any more 'Lawrence Welk' reruns.
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