Self-Sufficiency
With the lobbying effort to protect public radio's federal funding gearing up, now is a good time to remember that public radio's core services should not be dependent on the whims and inconsistencies of Congressional politics. For every hour invested in lobbying, one hundred should be invested in figuring out how to make public radio's core services in every community financially self-sufficient. We owe that to the millions of listeners who count on public radio every day.
posted by RadioSutton at 2:40 AM
1 Comments:
Thanks for your post Aaron. I have to disagree with your statement that there are just two roads to fiscal self-sufficiency. Many station budgets are funded equally by listener support and business support. So that's not an either/or proposition. Second, spending might be a bigger problem for public radio than revenue. This will be the subject of a future posting. And it is timely that you brought up the "lowest common denominator" cliche. I've been meaning to post about that as well. To preview -- using LCD and ratings in the same sentence suggests that public radio is trying to keep certain segments of the population out. I leave you with this question, if we are the higher denominator, who is beneath us?
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