I know of at least one other catholic station that carries some small amount of public radio programming and its owned by the dioceese but through a licensee that seperates it from the dioscese.
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Musk Calls for NPR and PBS Defunding
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I know of at least one other catholic station that carries some small amount of public radio programming and its owned by the dioceese but through a licensee that seperates it from the dioscese.
Actually, there are quite a few noncommercial stations affiliated with religious schools (though not all carry NPR programming) that receive CPB funds. KBYU and KBYI, both affiliated with Brigham University and its Rexburg, Idaho, satellite receive CPB support. So does WSMC-FM, a classical outlet in Chattanooga, Tennessee, associated with (if memory serves) a Baptist school. And then there is KACU-FM, a full NPR outlet owned by Abilene Christian School in Abilene, Texas.
The way the U.S. Constitution has worked thus far is that the courts can only intervene after a complaint has been filed; since I know of no lawsuits based on the stations' religious affiliations ever making the courts (I could be wrong here), I must assume that it is okay for a CPB-funded broadcaster to be affiliated with a religious university as long as (and Some Radio Guy, please feel free to correct me) a majority of the programming is not proseletizing in the faith of the station's owner.
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Also in the area but not (yet?) part of this alliance is 89.5 WSOU, which is owned by Catholic university Seton Hall, but plays mostly Heavy Metal rock music. (I guess they never watched "Hell's Bells"?)
The original intent of the law of separation of church and state was based entirely on the kingdoms of Europe where the royalty exercised their faith through a specific denomination (Evangelical Lutheran in Scandinavia Church of England in the UK). By royalty choosing a denomination, it became the official religion literally to the point that is you didn't exercise your faith in the same way as the royal family you were viewed as an enemy of the state. Read about Anabaptists creating closed communities to safeguard themselves from attack.
So, the writers of the Constitution wrote that government could not dictate a religion, Catholic for example. It has nothing to do with the practice of any or no faith and/or denomination but rather that a government cannot mandate a certain religion in the USA.
So, the writers of the Constitution wrote that government could not dictate a religion, Catholic for example. It has nothing to do with the practice of any or no faith and/or denomination but rather that a government cannot mandate a certain religion in the USA.
A Christian bookstore where I go on vacation was once playing the local CHR station, which leaned in a rock direction. I actually heard "Heaven's on Fire" by KISS.
Somehow, that doesn't surprise me. My perception is that a lot of the Christian music stations are really aimed more at Protestant audiences.
If public broadcasting is so good let it stand on it's own. Dont get me wrong I've enjoyed many of their programs, but if people dont want to subscribe enough to cover costs that should tell you something. Maybe it's not worth it. The government should not be propping it up. When someone listens to or watches pbs....thats one less viewer or listener for a commercial station. If you own or work in radio or tv ask yourself why are we funding your competition?
That's not true. As I've said in this thread, Ronald Reagan conditioned all federal funding to be based on each station's ability to raise money locally. The federal money is a percentage of the local fundraising. It's basically a matching fund. The purpose is to keep services free and available to everyone. The other part of the federal funding is for the station interconnection system, which is available to everyone, not just NPR. The CPB testifies every year in front of the appropriations committees to justify the federal funding.
They're not competition. They're doing programming that commercial stations don't do. Commercial TV networks have cut back on Saturday morning kids shows. Commercial radio has dropped local news. The reason the commercial companies supported the creation of PBS and NPR was specifically so they didn't have to do that kind of programming anymore.
my background is in commercial radio...... and i manage a public station now. i go where LOCAL radio is. We have no compeition
Here is more on Elon Musk's defunding moves so far according to Reuters.
How Elon Musk gained so much power in the Trump administration
President Trump has tasked Elon Musk with an enormous job of searching the federal government and rooting out inefficiencies and waste. But Musk’s initial, often chaotic, infiltration of various departments has set off alarm bells. It’s also put the tech entrepreneur at center stage of the...
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Arizona attorney general discusses lawsuit challenging Musk's power as unelected official
A federal judge ruled against a motion imposing a temporary restraining order on Elon Musk's so-called "Department of Government Efficiency." The ruling is in response to a suit brought by 14 attorneys general alleging President Trump violated the Constitution by granting Musk power. Amna Nawaz...
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And here is a segment on PBS Newshour and their coverage of Elon Musk in the White House including Musk facing a lawsuit by the Arizona State Attorney General related to Doge. Yes this is a sign that we expect the Defund CPB rants to continue.
Sheryl Crow sells her Tesla and donates proceeds to NPR
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Sheryl Crow sells her Tesla and donates proceeds to NPR
The singer recently dumped her Tesla in protest of the company's owner, Elon Musk.
Lee Introduces Bill to Cut American Tax Dollars from Funding NPR and PBS
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) has introduced the Defund Government Sponsored Propaganda Act, which would end federal taxpayer funding of the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio in light of longstanding concerns about their fairness and bias. The legislation has been introduced in the...
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Update Senator Lee joins in to do the same thing the house is proposing and it's cut funding to NPR and PBS via CPB. Again as mentioned here local affiliates are affected.
My guess is that the Senate bill Mr. Lee has introduced is going nowhere--it'll need 60 votes to overcome a likely Democratic filibuster. What will be more important are the House budget proposal (which has passed the House), the Senate's responding proposal (which they haven't made yet), and the final budget proposal after the differences between the two have been ironed out. And you can bet that the Trump administration will be in the mix, especially when it comes to funding CPB.Lee Introduces Bill to Cut American Tax Dollars from Funding NPR and PBS
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) has introduced the Defund Government Sponsored Propaganda Act, which would end federal taxpayer funding of the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio in light of longstanding concerns about their fairness and bias. The legislation has been introduced in the...
Update Senator Lee joins in to do the same thing the house is proposing and it's cut funding to NPR and PBS via CPB. Again as mentioned here local affiliates are affected.
CPB sends $7 million a year to Lee's state of Utah. Almost all of it goes to KUED at the University of Utah. The state government owns the station they're defunding. These folks in congress are hurting their home states, and they don't know it. This will translate to job losses for people in Utah, and more local taxes for people in Utah. But hey, they think they're cutting propaganda by defunding children's TV. They have no idea what they're doing.
As far as the house budget deal, a lot of the money they're cutting is aid to the states. So all they're doing is passing on those costs to the states, where they'll have to increase taxes to make up the loss. That's the plan. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. States like West Virginia and Louisiana stand to lose the most money. Who did they vote for?
Speaking of Elon Musk, he is a Canadian citizen, and Canada's public broadcaster, the CBC (also known as Radio Canada in French) is reporting that a quarter of a million Canadians have signed an online petition to the House of Commons to revoke Musk's Canadian citizenship, although a loophole won't let them do it right now. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/elon-musk-canadian-citizenship-1.7468330
Probably the best argument I've heard for not defunding NPR has to do with Alaska. In the Alaskan bush you have a sparse population spread over very wide areas that still relies on radio for most of their news and information because it's not economically feasible to build a 5G network for those reasons. Many of the stations are 10kW AMs and are public because a commercial station would not be economically viable in many cases. They provide EAS coverage as well as other services (relaying messages to people out in the bush, etc.) That's a real-world practical problem I grant you. I still expect NPR to be defunded, but some sort of provision will need to be made for Alaska.
I just had Vemont Public's classical network on in the car for a quick trip and heard two American composers, Florence Price and Samuel Barber, played back to back. Initial fears that VPR was trying to appease Trump by banning foreign composers, but then I remembered that Price was female and Black, so...
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