Sponsorships of programs that are shown on PBS and NPR (such as PBS Newshour or the defunct Nightly Business Report) are fairly common. They won’t be able to air if the broadcasters simply rely on public donations.
Trumpy probably wants to turn PBS and NPR into his own version of KCTV. The North Korean one, not the Kansas City station.
Threaten to withdraw money, but level with them into getting what he wants.
AI news readers on CNN and Fox news lol.
Don’t discount it, they would do that.
These audiences for a TV market with 18 million people are very small.
The most watched station in LA (ABC7) - with a market pop of 18 million - 3x Melbourne & Sydney gets 171,000 for it’s 6pm news.
Fox11 LA’s 68,000 at 6pm in a market of 18 million - is half the amount of people that watch NBN News.
Amazing how US station news gets such tiny viewing figures - and yet how much resource and money they put into it.
You’d be forgiven for thinking some channels already use AI newsreaders! coughBBCcough
Which makes the case for why aren’t they doing more local news? Especially after 7, wasted resources.
They being Australian stations you mean?
yes, sorry. Seven and Nine in particular. The argument people switch off after it is crazy, they switch off after reality even earlier right now.
people do switch off.
In the US, UK, Europe late news (9,10 or 11) is as regular and locked as our 6pm news.
It’s a permanent fixture.
Australians turn off as there has never been a permanent fixture past 9pm. Easier to go over to streaming
My point is they switch off after MAFS right now, a late local news would keep them for an extra 30 or 60 minutes.
In parallel to this, a bill aiming to cut funding for public broadcasting in North Dakota has been struck down.
UPD. Nope, the bill is moving ahead, with the same article now updated:
House Bill 1255, introduced Jan. 13, would bar any “state officer” from spending “state funds or federal funds … to directly or indirectly support public broadcasting.”
Lawmakers voted 61 to 32 Monday to pass the bill, with one “absent or excused and not voting.” The bill now advances to the House Appropriations Committee for review.
From said article:
A bill to get rid of just $1.5 million? (or thereabouts)
Oxymoron here…
Shows how much the Republicans care about ordinary people…
Then he’s not much of a fan now, is he?