How the CPB Rescission affected a public radio station - heard this in the way home

[underpants]

This is not a request for a donation but there is a link below.

Two DJ’s were on air doing a fundraising drive to overcome the $200,000 CPB Rescission last week . The DJ’s, not political very matter of fact, mentioned it several times. “If you already a member, we are asking for an additional donation”.

WNRN is a small public radio station in Charlottesville but the have frequencies all over the state. These are music lovers. I’ve heard hosts talk about “music meetings” where people bring in songs they’ve heard about they discuss if it can be available from their library. They don’t have a rotation. Great focused shows and an eclectic mix otherwise.

https://wnrn.org/on-the-air/

They are calling it the Rescission Fundraising
https://give.wnrn.org/give/705856/#!/donation/checkout

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNRN-FM

WNRN-FM (91.9 FM) is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station licensed to Charlottesville, Virginia, serving Central and Western Virginia.[3]

WNRN has a network of rebroadcasters and FM translators around Virginia, covering the Shenandoah Valley from Roanoke to Harrisonburg as well as Richmond, Williamsburg and Hampton Roads. It holds periodic fundraisers on the air to support the station and network. The main station has an effective radiated power of 320 watts, with its transmitter at the Carter's Mountain antenna farm in Charlottesville.[5]

[Igel]

1. Houston's NPR station's calling it their "resiliency fund."

They're saying something like $2.2 million's cut.

I used to think I understood their funding sources. Twice a year they say that they're listener-supported and say some truly large percentage of their funding comes from the listeners--and they don't fundraise much more than $2M. But then there's underwriting. And they get grants from foundations. Can't get the percentages to work out. (Didn't actually believe it during fundraising, either, but it sounded impressive.)

[SickOfTheOnePct]

2. Page 5...

...at this link shows sources for revenue and outlays for FY24.

https://cdn.houstonpublicmedia.org/assets/images/Houston-Public-Media-2024-FS-Final-RI.pdf?_gl=1*4zxa9p*_gcl_au*MTEyNzg0NTkzMy4xNzUzNDAwMTU3

I looked up for our PBS station (WETA) so that I could decide if I wanted to donate locally, or to a station that will really be impacted by the cuts.

[underpants]

4. Page 7. Usually 9% comes CPB.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

5. Yes, it is on page 7 as well

I just saw it on page 5 and stopped there.

[underpants]

3. Generally 15% of their funding is from the Feds.

The Joan Kroc (McDonalds) and Annie E. Casey (UPS) foundations do a lot of the heavy lifting.