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In Reply to: RE: Exactly, and PBS isn't government sponsored, either. The ignorance posted by Barabajagal on July 03, 2014 at 13:55:54
"While the appropriation equals about 15% of our system's revenue, this is an aggregate number. For many stations, the appropriation counts for as much as 40-50% of their budget"
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"While the appropriation equals about 15% of our system's revenue, this is an aggregate number. For many stations, the appropriation counts for as much as 40-50% of their budget"
First, read the first bullet point in that document.
"The appropriation for public broadcasting does not come to PBS from the government."
Federal appropriations go to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which then distributes it from there. In 2012, the federal appropriation was $445 million. Of which only $27 million was distributed to PBS. That's a whopping 6%.
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PBS only gets about 6% of federal appropriations.
I don't see where you get the 6% number?
The chart on page 3 shows that Public Television gets 297 million federal dollars.
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The chart on page 3 shows that Public Television gets 297 million federal dollars.
Those grants go to the stations from the CPB. The money that goes to PBS (which is what this has been about) is under "System Support" and was $26.7 million which is 6% of the $445 million federal appropriation.
"In addition to grants to stations and funding the development of content, by statute CPB spends six percent of its funds on projects that benefit the entire public broadcasting community. Out of this “system support” funding, CPB negotiates and pays music royalties on behalf of all public broadcasting, funds research to explore audience needs and technological opportunities, and pays half the operating costs of the public television interconnection system."I don't think "system support" means what you think it does.
Part of the 27 million goes to PBS and part of the 297 million goes to PBS as well.
How much and what percentage of PBS's budget that is, I don't know but to say PBS is not government funded is a lie.
PBS says they get 15% of their budget from the government and that amounts to 50% of some of the smaller stations budget.
WNET get 33% of it's funding from the government.
You understand that any venture that's receiving 33% of it funding from the government could not stand on it's own?
PBS gets whatever it gets and still runs commercials!
Why not just run a few more commercials and leave my tax money alone?
I will let the facts stand for themselves.
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There is a private board; a CEO.
No government appointees.
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