If the Corp for public broadcasting is defunded...

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

They could run the show for "free" as a donation to Sesame Workshop (a non-profit), and use it as a tax writeoff.

"Tax Write-off" is a term from another era. We still use it, but most of us don't have any concept of why a tax write off would do anything for anybody.

Under today's tax laws, the term "tax write-off" has no currency.

Bring us another solution that works in today's world.

 

[TheBigA]

Under today's tax laws, the term "tax write-off" has no currency.

Ironically, the Republicans are the ones who made that change in the tax law. It really hurt non-profits. It also took the heart and soul out of running a business.

 

[ajc_trw]

Re: Has anyone here given to an PBS or NPR station?

Romney's point was -- IS IT WORTH BORROWING MONEY FROM CHINA to fund PBS (or any federal program)? If you can't honestly answer yes, then the funding should be shelved until we can put the budget in balance. Is it worth borrowing from China to fund PBS? I say no.

I donate to public radio. KPLU is one of the world's leading jazz radio stations.

If the "private sector" can do a jazz station so much better, then why aren't they? What's standing in their way? There's MILLIONS more in their coffers than KPLU could ever DREAM of having. So why aren't they doing it? What are they afraid of?

Would Discovery, Nickelodeon and the History Channel put up free over the air DTV transmitters to cover the loss of PBS? What about those who can't afford cable/satellite or the internet?

Just curious.....

...or the PBS affiliate gives up one of it's specialty sub-channels and puts on Discovery, Nickeloden, History Channel for the cable channel paying the affiliate a fee for the OTA service. It would help cord-cutter families and drive some good will to the network.

If something like that is legal.

 

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

Re: Has anyone here given to an PBS or NPR station?

...or the PBS affiliate gives up one of it's specialty sub-channels and puts on Discovery, Nickeloden, History Channel for the cable channel paying the affiliate a fee for the OTA service. It would help cord-cutter families and drive some good will to the network.

If something like that is legal.

If it is so "God-awful" for government to allocate a small amount of it's tax revenue to support Public Broadcasting,...
What makes it so "righteous" to grab some cable channels and tell them it is their duty to fund Public Broadcasting whether they want to or not?

There is a consensus among some of us that it is the rural stations and stations serving communities that are in financial disaster that need the government support. (Big city/prosperous community stations can probably "wing-it" even if they lose Federal money)

What are the chances these rural station and financial disaster communities have Public Broadcasting stations that do not have sub-channels to hand over to cable channels.

So who gets roped into this "fix one disaster" scenario by throwing someone else under the bus to make up for it. Who do you suggest we tell that they have to pay to install sub-channels and operate them so Public Broadcasting can collect fees from cable channels corralled into this "electronic slavery system" so Conservatives don't have to sit around every day crying and moaning that the world is unbearable because a portion of their tax money the size of flea-dung goes to Public Broadcasting which is cruel and unusual punishment for them.

Does fixing one problem by creating another one and solving that by creating yet another problem really solve the original tension?

 

[Bongwater]

Also, think about ALASKA. Barrow, Kotzebue and all the countless remote communities that DEPEND on public radio, Clear Channel, CBS, Saga, Sandusky, Cumulus and Entercom aren't going to set up clusters out there (not even EMF/CSN will set up Jesuscasters out there!)

So public radio is all there is.....

 

[mysticnitekatt]

Disney owns the Muppets now

Except for the Sesame Street and Jim Henson Productions (The Fraggles,etc) owned Characters.

 

[mysticnitekatt]

Does PBS need 3 (Yes 3) Sub-channel networks? I say combined Kinds,Create and world into PBS-2 and then let stations lease (NOT sell off) the sub-channels for commercial broadcasting. Come the possibility of bandwidth station sharing, those sub-channel slots would be valuable.

I say, if they do allow commercials, it should be regulated and allowed at the top,middle and bottom of the hour and limited to 2 minutes top and bottom, and 1 minute in the middle.