NPR SUCKSFollow

That wouldn't be NPR's fault that would be your local stations fault jackhole.

NPR produces and distributes their programing, they do not own the stations that air it therefore no you can not blame NPR if your local radio station decided McCain was putting their listeners to sleep and chose to play classical music instead, ****.

He is right, it's the local affiliates job to maintain the programming. NPR makes their programming available to ALL of their outlets, and it's up to those outlets to play whatever the **** they feel like. If you really wanna ***** call your local NPR affiliate and let them have it. No use takin it out on Git.(Unless he is somehow affiliated with NPR)

Ach, at least your local NPR station carried part of it. The NPR station here, is only considered an NPR station because they play all things considered during the week, prairie home companion, (), and car talk. 3 NPR programs, that's it.

No morning edition, no fresh air, no talk of the nation, and no Wait Wait Don't tell me!

Man does this station suck.



Edited, Mon Aug 30 23:39:54 2004 by kundalini

Louisville has the goods, all the standard NPR shows and BBC late night, no classical music at all :D

Hey Man, get your crappy comments off my NPR!!!

Actually, I used to work for a PBS station and it was kind of annoying hearing people lump them all together. Like NPR, PBS produces and runs broadcasting which the individual stations choose for themselves what to play. Most stations go with the children's programming satellite feed for morning and afternoon because everyone expects to see Sesame Street and then decide the late morning and evening programming from their own library. Larger stations produce more of their own programming and smaller rural ones depend heavily upon the PBS library and only run a few local shows a week.

I know what Stok was saying, but I understand why it'd be a peeve of Gitslayer as well (who I believe works in radio).

I love NPR, Car Talk is very amusing.

They also produce a lot of the children's programming from what I recall. I remember seeing WGBH at the end of a few programs during the morning shift.

Believe it or not, those pledge week things are effective. Peter, Paul and Mary get a lot of Baby Boomers to tune in and donate and cough up some dough when Frontline wouldn't. About 25% of PBS funding comes from "members" (i.e. non-commercial donations) and another 30% from government, though that's split between state and federal so technically members donate the most as a group. Which is, of course, most of the reason why smaller stations don't produce their own programming -- not enough base to give them money to do much beyond keep the sat feeds plugged in and the staff paid. Not to turn this political but it's been on the Republican agenda to stop funding PBS for decades now which makes my stomach turn to see Laura Bush on between programmings telling the children to read when her husband's party is trying to kill the station she's preaching on. PBS turning 'commercial' to stay afloat isn't likely to happen -- if educational programming was something most companies wanted to invest in, we wouldn't be seeing Pokémon and Oprah on during the morning hours on commercial television. PBS has consistantly provided quality educational programming to children (and adults) across the nation to anyone who can afford a television set and a pair of rabbit ears. Luckily, member funding has been up the fast few years though that doesn't help a station in downstate Indiana.

Anyway, the Chicago station is WTTW which puts forth a lot of its own programming and is an excellent place to catch the news. When I worked downstate, the only local programming we produced was a crappy nightly news program and a weekly local events discussion with poor audio and no set. Nothing like listening to people mumble about garbage collection contracts as they sit on wooden stools against a blue drape.