>PBS, no favorite of the neocons, stood to lose $22M with a delay. The legislation did not require the stations to not switch. It merely relaxed the requirement that they do switch. If the station did not care about its audience it was free to switch at anytime. The law also allocated funds to compenstae stations for losses.
Nope, that PBS story looks like pure BS. The Bush administration has stuffed PBS and CPB with neocon crooks. Recall the CPB director from a few years ago that billed them for more days than there were in the year, forced PBS to run bizarre neocon propaganda (whick got terrible ratings), and cancelled Bill Moyer's well-regarded show. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
