Opinion: Remember reading the paper?

Re:Opinion: Remember reading the paper? by clairity on Saturday February 05, 2022 @07:10PM (#30227796)

yah, it's so easy and you still got it wrong. you've listed 2017's version of the average member station funding, not npr's funding. even so, only 4% of that is public, while npr itself gets no direct public funding. note that that 4% is accounted for under about 1/3 of npr's funding, so an upper limit of 4/3 of 1% to npr (if all member station revenue went to npr).

this quote comes directly from npr (see concluding statement on this page[0]):

> "On average, less than 1% of NPR's annual operating budget comes in the form of grants from CPB and federal agencies and departments."

[0]: https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finance...

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Re:Opinion: Remember reading the paper? by alar44 on Saturday February 05, 2022 @07:46PM (#30228046)

No, that is NPRs overall funding. The point is that no, most of it doesn't come from corporations.

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Re:Opinion: Remember reading the paper? by clairity on Saturday February 05, 2022 @08:24PM (#30228306)

37% of npr's revenues is direct corporate sponsorship. another 1/3 comes from member sations. of that third, ~20% is direct ad buys and ~40% is individual contributions, except "individuals" really means wealthy (corporately interested) donors[0]. so add it all up, and you're comfortably over 50%, without considering any of the other little influenced bits of revenue you could throw in.

so yes, that's most.

[0]: "As of September 30, 2021, 13 donors comprise approximately 77% of the gross pledges receivable balance.", from page 31 of their FY2020 consolidated financials

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