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Radio has lost it's personal touch? I think not....

ted chittenden said:
Has it not occurred to you that the clawing back of CPB funds is an even greater long-term problem than it is a short term one? SomeRadioGuy has indicated in other threads that he may be able to hold out for six months to a year in the current situation but probably not more than that. And I expect the long-term consequences of the CPB cuts will not be felt right now but will slowly come into play as we go forward year by year. And, unless something at the Federal leadership level drastically changes, do *not* expect that money to be coming back to public radio any time soon!
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Clawback can cause harm now too.

Here in GA there is some controversy over the Feds clawing back the COVID and Medicaid funding which has a few rural hospitals threatening to close by Christmas.. Even if funding is restored, is very difficult if not financially possible to restart a closed rural hospital.
 
ted chittenden said:
Here's a thought concerning KCHU. I see that Valdez also has a commercial operator, New Wave Communications, with an AM/FM combo. What I'm wondering (and I don't know if this would be in violation of current law) is if New Wave Communications would be interested in purchasing the station at 770 kHz with a callsign change and moving the old 770 tower (again assuming the FCC would agree to this) to their transmitter site and split the country and talk programming now heard on 1230 kHz to two separate formats, one on 770 and the other on 1230. That 770 frequency has quite a bit of coverage in Alaska, especially at night, and I wonder if the commercial broadcaster might be interested in that.
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The problem is the funding/commercial viability of that...
 
ted chittenden said:
Has it not occurred to you that the clawing back of CPB funds is an even greater long-term problem than it is a short term one? SomeRadioGuy has indicated in other threads that he may be able to hold out for six months to a year in the current situation but probably not more than that. And I expect the long-term consequences of the CPB cuts will not be felt right now but will slowly come into play as we go forward year by year. And, unless something at the Federal leadership level drastically changes, do *not* expect that money to be coming back to public radio any time soon!
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WE can hold out for longer than that i tyhink here.. other stations arent lucky.. and will barely have that.
 


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