What about rural Minnesota, where often the only radio news coverage of depth or covering the state government comes from MPR News? MOST of the stations that benefit MOST from this are small stations and in rural or poorer parts of various states. The KQED/WAMU world is a different thing than most of what public radio is between the coasts.
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FCC Opens Investigation into NPR and PBS
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This is from a semi local community radio station. I have blocked out the call letters, so they won't be a target.
Please assess the impact that your CPB funding had on your ability to serve your community. What were you able to do with your grant that you wouldn’t be able to do if you didn’t receive it.
CPB funding accounts for nearly 25 percent of XXXX total income during the fiscal year. Without it, the already spartan staff would be cut from six to five. The station would be forced to re-evaluate broadcasting several programs the community has come to rely on for alternative viewpoints like Alternative Radio and New Dimensions, news coverage like Democracy Now!, and specialty music programming like Sound Opinions and Music City Roots. Further, CPB helps fund professional development for the staff, engineering, purchase of equipment, and many of the operational needs of the station throughout the year. It is critical that the station receive CPB funding to continue to improve and better serve its listeners
Yeah, she's my Senator and I don't her to know the first thing about the subject matter
Yes, it's true, everything CPB funds isn't news oriented. Out local Americana station gets CPB funding. How much I don't know.
Keep in mind that this particular investigation isn't about CPB. But CPB itself is likely to get defunded in this current budget process.
If she's your senator, then you're in Tennessee and know (or should know) that the music business carries a lot of juice there. Seems to me she's just carrying their water, making the arguments that Nashville (and to a lesser extent Memphis) want made to the high and mighty in the Capitol. Advocating for new or amended laws that will improve the competitive position of the music industry vis. the broadcast industry.
I cant speak officially to our numbers but based on what I recall... CPB funding accounts for way more than 25 percent of our funding.
But then where is that line drawn, who decides whats remote... i have a community of 275 people as my home base, biggest for 150 miles.
But a community of 5000 in Cow Dung, MN may be just as remote as me, but its much bigger
Plus, i dont want the government getting involved in programming or exceptions like this
Oh wait, theyre already trying to do the first thing.
You know the answer is a resounding no. It also doesn’t matter. Effectively total control of finances is being turned over to one man with more chips on his shoulder than a Costco-sized bag of Ruffles, and a legion of willing sycophants. It doesn’t matter who has what authority by statute when there is no one who will enforce those statutes.
Everything we once “knew” about due process, rule of law and the like is gone. We tried to tell people this was coming. Every single bit of it. And here we are. Today, they may be targeting USAID and the department of education. They already have full control over the treasuryare barely getting warmed up. Whatever pretense they come up with will be dutifully parroted by a cowardly press and they will find whatever evidence they want of some malfeasance, whether it’s imaginary or not.
Maybe people worth well into the 8 figures don't need it. Anyone with less of an estate definitely does.
Because they paid into it and have the right to get it back. The problem all along is that Social Security is funded from current income, not investment income. Social Security should have been set up as an investment fund, where income would pay the costs of benefits while the capital grew.
But the amount of funding is fungible and adjustable.
I can see the point of the Commissioner; when I look at Masterpiece on public television, those "sponsorships" by the river cruise lines and the like are very simply "ads" to me. The same applies without the visuals for some sponsorship credits on public radio.
However, my attitude has always been "who does it hurt?" It's a fine way to finance a lot of things that would not get on commercial radio and TV, and I'm all for it... with the existing limitations, of course.
Here's what David Oxenford says:
As FCC Chairman Announces an Investigation into Alleged PBS and NPR Advertising, a Look at the Underwriting Requirements for All Noncommercial Broadcast Stations
Yesterday, the new FCC Chairman Brendan Carr sent a letter to NPR and PBS announcing that he has asked the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau to launch an
www.broadcastlawblog.com
It's one thing for the FCC as a whole to issue a report & order, or some revised sponsorship guidelines. Maybe seek out public comments on what funding announcements should include. That would be fine and proper. Instead was happened was the Chairman wrote letters to NPR & PBS, with copies to congress stating that he believes they're breaking the law, and therefore shouldn't receive federal funding. He didn't send the letter to anyone else in the public radio sphere, such as American Public Media, or all non-com stations, or anyone else who also received federal funding. Just NPR & PBS. Doesn't that strike you as odd?
That said:
1) Above a certain level of income, a Social Security recipient gets out less than what they put into it. Life expectancy also plays a role. One also has to have been a participant, i.e. a payer of Social Security tax, for a certain number of quarters.
2) Above certain levels of income, a Medicare recipient must pay an additional surcharge known as IRMAA, the Income-Related Monthly Adjustment Amount. This is based on income two years prior. IRMAA can be up to 340% of the Medicare Part B base rate, in addition to that base, depending upon income. There are five brackets where IRMAA applies, starting with income about $106,000 two years before. This was implemented in 2007. There's an additional IRMAA for Part D prescription coverage.
3) Social Security and Medicare were designed as universal programs and a form of social insurance. Thus the notion of "investment" isn't all that relevant. Wall Street would like to get its hands on that Social Security money, but has been rebuffed in the past. The universality of Medicare has been eroded somewhat by IRMAA and by so-called Medicare Advantage (Part C), which has turned out to be a gravy train for health insurance companies. I refuse to have anything to do with Part C.
And those at a certain higher retirement income level pay enormous amounts in additional Medicare charges. The two of us pay over $10 thousand a year in those charges, reducing our net from "the gumm'ent" by about a quarter.
If you itemize, and only above a certain percentage of income. The tax changes from Trump's first term raised that bar somewhat higher than it was before.
Elon Musk, director of the Department of Government Efficiency, has NPR as his next target for eliminating funding.
www.yahoo.com
Elon Musk Suggests America Should ‘Defund NPR’ as Government Cuts Roll On
"It should survive on its own," the X owner bluntly states of National Public Radio The post Elon Musk Suggests America Should ‘Defund NPR’ as Government Cuts Roll On appeared first on TheWrap.
As I said, NPR isn't in the federal budget. To defund NPR, they have to defund CPB. Because that's where the money comes from.
It looks like they're going to try and do that, even though the funding for 2025 has already been appropriated.
NPR probably could survive on it's own. But the local stations in red states may have some trouble.
That. Doesn’t. Matter.
The rules are irrelevant. The laws are irrelevant. There is no one to enforce them. What does it take for people to grasp what’s happening in broad daylight?
Medicare increments are not deductible unless total medical expenses exceed a nearly unattainable expense level. And in many states, Social Security payments are taxable.
The media in general does not understand how Social Security and Medicare funds are collected, administered and distributed. I have lost track of news stories that call Social Security a "tax" on working people's salary rather than an entitlement you earn.
Remember all those bean counters people here said ruined radio? What happens when those bean counters are put in charge of the government?
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