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Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Shut Down After 58 Years Due to Trump Eliminating Funding (variety.com)

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A bunch of conservative folks felt that some media that received funding from the CPB

e.g. NPR

promoted issues on the left.

I'd say that it was probably center-left, but not by much, and very little of NPR's funding actually came from the CPB.

A lot of radio in the US is, as far as I can tell, on the right, like, Christian religious stuff is a very substantial portion of it. I suppose if you're fighting for mindshare among the rural public, you probably don't much want competition.

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https://www.insideradio.com/free/format-counts-2024-country-still-leads-christian-religion-growing/article_0620c096-c742-11ef-8a86-ef7523510a36.html

Rank	Format - Number of Stations	Dec 23	Jan 24	Dec 24	Gain/Loss YOY	Gain/Loss YTD
1	Country	2,164	2,163	2,168	4(0.2%)	5(0.2%)
2	Religion (Teaching, Variety)	2,036	2,037	2,072	36(1.7%)	35(1.7%)
3	News/Talk	2,005	2,000	1,984	-21(-1.1%)	-16(-0.8%)
4	Contemporary Christian	1,363	1,366	1,407	44(3.1%)	41(2.9%)

No count of NPR stations that I can quickly find, but about three-and-a-half pages here:

https://legacy.npr.org/stations/pdf/nprstations.pdf

Maybe very roughly 900 NPR stations, as a quick estimate based on how many are in a single column.

EDIT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

Project 2025 proposes reconsidering the accommodations given to journalists who are members of the White House Press Corps.[6] It proposes defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private, nonprofit corporation that provides funding for the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio, as "good policy and good politics" because it accounts for "half a billion dollars squandered on leftist opinion each year".[100]: 246 [189]

It also entertains the idea of revoking NPR stations' noncommercial status, forcing them to move outside the 88–92 range on the FM dial, which could then be taken by religious programming.[190] Brendan Carr, who wrote the article on the Federal Communications Commission in Project 2025,[100] was appointed by Trump to lead the FCC, and subsequently launched an investigation into NPR and PBS, in accordance with Project 2025.[191]