UPDATE: here’s a list of NPR’s sponsors by percentage:

31% from listeners in the form of pledges, memberships, and other donations
20% from businesses via corporate underwriting
11% from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which is federally funded*
10% from licensee support
9% from foundations and major gifts
5% from local and state governments, and
14% from all other sources.

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11% from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which is federally funded
5% from local and state governments



16% total from tax dollars.

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They probably “simply don’t have the financial resources” to pay taxes, either, let alone purchase broadcasting licenses like every media outlet which has to survive on its merits like the private sector has to do. It turns out that the very stations which NPR funds disproportionately don’t tend to do too well on the free market. Thanks for yet again spitting in the taxpayers’ (and the readers’ and listeners’) faces, NPR.



And as of Feb, 2004:

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The dollars flow to CPB and then to PBS and NPR (and member stations) in the form of direct handouts and tax deductions for contributions made by individual viewers. In 2003, CPB received a $363 million federal appropriation. That's an incredible 45 percent increase in just four years. The time has come to end this taxpayer-fed gravy train.




But what's $363 million among friends? I couldn't find the 2009 numbers. They might be a few bucks higher.

Bob

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