To borrow from the great Steve McCroskey, "Looks like I picked the wrong presidency to quit drinking."
On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 6:54 PM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > For eons, the right has tried to take away federal funds for PBS, NPR and > their stations, but Trump's new FCC chairman Brendan Carr is claiming that > underwriting messages on PBS and NPR and their stations are crossing the > line into commercials: > > https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/nx-s1-5281162/fcc-npr-pbs-investigation > > The federal laws say that non-commercial stations can run underwriting > announcements as long as they don't contain price information, comparisons > or, most notably, a "call to action" ("Try Krunchie-Wunchies today--they're > flavortastic!"). Since the underwriting laws were changed 35 years ago, > some pubcaster supporters have complained about them, mostly on general > principles and usually from either the far left about anything representing > Evil Corporate Capitalist AmeriKKKa (even if the announcements on most > radio stations, especially in small markets, are from local small > businesses) or classical music hardcores who don't want their Bach and > Beethoven sullied by "advertising" between pieces. Still, at least 90 > percent of non-commercial stations run them (the exceptions being the few > college stations that are totally funded by the school and fundraising and > "community" stations like the eternally struggling Pacifica group). And > one would think that the right would be totally in favor of anything that > reduces government funding (and where the Bible-thumping noncoms are > usually the ones playing fast and loose with the regulations)--oh, that's > right, they want PBS and NPR out of business and all of those frequencies > taken over by EMF (the "K-Love" people) or Rev. Billy Bob's Cathedral of > Faith Healing and Snake Handling. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/581326ee-6a7d-4d7a-a5dd-997abe080c90n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/581326ee-6a7d-4d7a-a5dd-997abe080c90n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABru7%2BdqD65Pqi7Lm0QfFHNmtRKaHP2zNhGrOn8_q-0O7in_sg%40mail.gmail.com.
