Re: Fwd: Talk Radio (was LTAR)

["Aaron [Bishop] Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>]

>  DATE: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 17:10:39
>From: Dan Billings <billingsdan@yahoo.com>
>To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
>
>And the liberals do dominate public radio where they
>can survive on a government subsidy and ignore
>commercial concerns.  ;-)
>
>-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine

What government subsidy is that Dan?  Most public radio stations I know 
receive little or no government funding of any kind.  Several of them 
receive funding from their parent University or College...including free 
rent & utilities (an non-inconsiderable sum, no doubt)...but nothing in the 
way of government subsidies.

I suppose you could say the state schools get fed money and therefore the 
stations get fed money, but that's stretching the concept a bit.

Anyways, the stations that are organized enough to apply for and manage 
gov't money are those that cannot afford to ignore basic business 
principles like serving the customer, balancing their budget, etc etc etc 
because they're going to be large enough to have some real listeners who're 
expecting a certain level of quality...AND they're going to have staff 
that's going to expect at least some paycheck (no matter how paltry it may 
be :-)


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