Reply #47: cutting off donations to your pbs station: exactly the wrong thing to do [View All]

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Ferree is head of the CPB, which provides funding for PBS programming. CPB gets its money from the taxpayers. When you contribute to your local PBS station you are providing them with an alternative source of programming which means that they aren't as dependent on what CPB provides.

Frankly, having the government fund programming has always been a concern for me. I'd like to see the stations funded through fouundation grants and, in the next few years, from the billions that is going to be raised auctioning off the analog broadcast spectrum. The fewer "strings" between the money that funds public broadcasting and Congress, the better.

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