NPR listeners --POLL: When I turn on NPR and they are fund raising, I ...

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Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: LordJezo

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Why do they even need fund raising? It's PUBLIC...AKA tax-payer funded!

I'm pi$$ed off as it is that MY tax dollars pay for that liberal drivel!

How is NPR Supported?

NPR (National Public Radio) is a private, self-supporting nonprofit media company with hundreds of independent radio stations as members. NPR receives no direct federal funding for general support. NPR supports its operations through a combination of membership dues and programming fees from stations, contributions from private foundations and corporations, and revenue from the sales of transcripts, books, CDs, and merchandise. A very small percentage - between 1-2 percent of NPR's annual budget - comes from competitive grants sought by NPR from federally funded organizations, such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. At present, NPR's annual operating budget is approximately $100 million a year (2002 NPR Annual Report).


2% of that is $2 million. Divide that by the current US population of 292,924,307 and your approximate yearly stake in NPR is roughly .683 cents.

Thats .683 cents too much they are stealing out of my pocket to support their garbage.

Actually there are not 292,924,307 taxpayers so that number is not anywhere close to accurate. For year 2001 it was estimated that a total of 129,948 individual tax returns filed. That comes out to around $15.40 per tax return.

Huh? So NPR got $2 million in tax dollars and that equals 1% of a $10 million operating budget?

 

[Entity]

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: LordJezo

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Why do they even need fund raising? It's PUBLIC...AKA tax-payer funded!

I'm pi$$ed off as it is that MY tax dollars pay for that liberal drivel!

How is NPR Supported?

NPR (National Public Radio) is a private, self-supporting nonprofit media company with hundreds of independent radio stations as members. NPR receives no direct federal funding for general support. NPR supports its operations through a combination of membership dues and programming fees from stations, contributions from private foundations and corporations, and revenue from the sales of transcripts, books, CDs, and merchandise. A very small percentage - between 1-2 percent of NPR's annual budget - comes from competitive grants sought by NPR from federally funded organizations, such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. At present, NPR's annual operating budget is approximately $100 million a year (2002 NPR Annual Report).


2% of that is $2 million. Divide that by the current US population of 292,924,307 and your approximate yearly stake in NPR is roughly .683 cents.

Thats .683 cents too much they are stealing out of my pocket to support their garbage.

Actually there are not 292,924,307 taxpayers so that number is not anywhere close to accurate. For year 2001 it was estimated that a total of 129,948 individual tax returns filed. That comes out to around $15.40 per tax return.

129,948 returns filed in 2001? Are you joking?

United States, total 125,227,232

From http://www.bizstats.com/statereturns.htm

Rob

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: Entity

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: LordJezo

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Why do they even need fund raising? It's PUBLIC...AKA tax-payer funded!

I'm pi$$ed off as it is that MY tax dollars pay for that liberal drivel!

How is NPR Supported?

NPR (National Public Radio) is a private, self-supporting nonprofit media company with hundreds of independent radio stations as members. NPR receives no direct federal funding for general support. NPR supports its operations through a combination of membership dues and programming fees from stations, contributions from private foundations and corporations, and revenue from the sales of transcripts, books, CDs, and merchandise. A very small percentage - between 1-2 percent of NPR's annual budget - comes from competitive grants sought by NPR from federally funded organizations, such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. At present, NPR's annual operating budget is approximately $100 million a year (2002 NPR Annual Report).


2% of that is $2 million. Divide that by the current US population of 292,924,307 and your approximate yearly stake in NPR is roughly .683 cents.

Thats .683 cents too much they are stealing out of my pocket to support their garbage.

Actually there are not 292,924,307 taxpayers so that number is not anywhere close to accurate. For year 2001 it was estimated that a total of 129,948 individual tax returns filed. That comes out to around $15.40 per tax return.

129,948 returns filed in 2001? Are you joking?

United States, total 125,227,232

From http://www.bizstats.com/statereturns.htm

Rob

Doh my bad, I left off the trailing 0's from the pdf I got the number from. That number you quote does look in line with the ones I was looking at.

 

[Entity]

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: Entity

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: LordJezo

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Why do they even need fund raising? It's PUBLIC...AKA tax-payer funded!

I'm pi$$ed off as it is that MY tax dollars pay for that liberal drivel!

How is NPR Supported?

NPR (National Public Radio) is a private, self-supporting nonprofit media company with hundreds of independent radio stations as members. NPR receives no direct federal funding for general support. NPR supports its operations through a combination of membership dues and programming fees from stations, contributions from private foundations and corporations, and revenue from the sales of transcripts, books, CDs, and merchandise. A very small percentage - between 1-2 percent of NPR's annual budget - comes from competitive grants sought by NPR from federally funded organizations, such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. At present, NPR's annual operating budget is approximately $100 million a year (2002 NPR Annual Report).


2% of that is $2 million. Divide that by the current US population of 292,924,307 and your approximate yearly stake in NPR is roughly .683 cents.

Thats .683 cents too much they are stealing out of my pocket to support their garbage.

Actually there are not 292,924,307 taxpayers so that number is not anywhere close to accurate. For year 2001 it was estimated that a total of 129,948 individual tax returns filed. That comes out to around $15.40 per tax return.

129,948 returns filed in 2001? Are you joking?

United States, total 125,227,232

From http://www.bizstats.com/statereturns.htm

Rob

Doh my bad, I left off the trailing 0's from the pdf I got the number from. That number you quote does look in line with the ones I was looking at.

Heh, ok, I figured. I couldn't tell if you were making some odd joke (that I didn't get) or not.

That being said, my tax dollars go to a lot more things that I don't support, so I'm not terribly upset about public broadcasting programs getting my support.

Rob

 

[abracadabra1]

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Why do they even need fund raising? It's PUBLIC...AKA tax-payer funded!

I'm pi$$ed off as it is that MY tax dollars pay for that liberal drivel!

How is NPR Supported?

NPR (National Public Radio) is a private, self-supporting nonprofit media company with hundreds of independent radio stations as members. NPR receives no direct federal funding for general support. NPR supports its operations through a combination of membership dues and programming fees from stations, contributions from private foundations and corporations, and revenue from the sales of transcripts, books, CDs, and merchandise. A very small percentage - between 1-2 percent of NPR's annual budget - comes from competitive grants sought by NPR from federally funded organizations, such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. At present, NPR's annual operating budget is approximately $100 million a year (2002 NPR Annual Report).


2% of that is $2 million. Divide that by the current US population of 292,924,307 and your approximate yearly stake in NPR is roughly .683 cents.

that's for quelling the tax-payer argument...didn't make sense

 

[gopunk]

npr can be construed to have a liberal bias because it's just about the only intelligent radio station out there

*puts on flame suit*

 

[Harvey]

In L.A., we have two NPR stations right next to each other on the dial, KCRW, 89.9 and KPCC, 88.3. They are kind enough not to overlap their fund raising weeks. Their programming is different, but they both run NPR news at about the same time. I support NPR, but listening to two weeks of pledge drive would be self inflicted torture.

 

[blakeatwork]

??

Dumb question..

What's NPR?

 

[ggavinmoss]

Originally posted by: blakeatwork
??

Dumb question..

What's NPR?

National Public Radio.

-geoff