10-19-2026, 01:13 AM
Rob;
In all fairness this is not unique to NPR and or PBS television itself, even commercial TV and radio networks, as well as newspapers, and magazines started "circling the bowl" around the middle of the last decade, and money seems to have had little to do with it. If you look at late night talk/variety shows some had budgets over the $100 million mark, yet not one of them compares to Johnny Carson, or even Dave Letterman in their prime, the audience numbers definitely do not. The CBC, Canada's state broadcaster, gets a $1.5-1.7 billion dollar bailout every year, on top of Ad revenue, and much of their content is utter manure, hardly anyone watches them, but everyone is still forced to pay for it, including their privately owned competition.
Regards
Arran
In all fairness this is not unique to NPR and or PBS television itself, even commercial TV and radio networks, as well as newspapers, and magazines started "circling the bowl" around the middle of the last decade, and money seems to have had little to do with it. If you look at late night talk/variety shows some had budgets over the $100 million mark, yet not one of them compares to Johnny Carson, or even Dave Letterman in their prime, the audience numbers definitely do not. The CBC, Canada's state broadcaster, gets a $1.5-1.7 billion dollar bailout every year, on top of Ad revenue, and much of their content is utter manure, hardly anyone watches them, but everyone is still forced to pay for it, including their privately owned competition.
Regards
Arran
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