Re: Fwd: Talk Radio (was LTAR)

[Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 09:55:39 -0400 "Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@lycos.com>
writes:
>  Perhaps; but they DO have to worry about contributors
> and underwriters, which is why WBUR is in the midst
> of yet ANOTHER fundraising period right after the Mothers
> Day pitch!  And if you've observed other media 
> news websites (e.g. radiodailynews.com) Public TV 
> stations in Dallas and Washington DC are cutting back.--

> 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
The government "subsidy" is far less than most people believe a vast
majority of funding comes from listeners and from corporate underwriting
and Public Radio is subjected to the same pressures from corporations
that commerical radio is case in point the on-going boycott of WBUR by
some former corporate underwriters because of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict.  To WBUR's credit the station has not caved to the economic
pressure.
df