Corporation for Public Broadcasting votes itself out of existence.

[Michigan Swamp Buck]

Leaders of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private agency that has steered federal funding to PBS, NPR and hundreds of public television and radio stations across the country, voted Monday to dissolve the organization that was created in 1967.

CPB had been winding down since Congress acted last summer to defund its operations at the encouragement of President Donald Trump. Its board of directors chose Monday to shutter CPB completely instead of keeping it in existence as a shell.


https://www.nxsmediawire.com/news/corpor...existence/

Well, goodbye, Big Bird, Burt, Ernie, Oscar, and the rest of you guys. See ya Rick Steves, and all the Gay, Native and Black American cultural shows. Adios, Nature, and all those scientific programs too. I hope you all find another network or two to continue to exist on.

Let's see what happens to all those PBS broadcast stations. Maybe they will be just like the rest of them with shop-at-home programs or reruns of old movies and TV shows that include westerns (all of them), Home Improvement, Gilligan's Island, Mr Ed, etc.

[SomeJackleg]

back in the day PBS wasn't all that bad, sure they were touchy, feely but they didn't push the horsesh@@ like the have been the past 25 yrs or more. 

i guess that's what happens you get to being a flaming libatardian using public money, you go broke and have to close the doors.

[Ninurta]

Buh-bye.

With the single exception of the first season (and ONLY the first season, since any further seasons would have cost me out the ass to watch) of "Jamestown", I've neither watched nor followed ANY of the "public broadcasting" offerings since the days of Tavis Smiley back in the 1990's, when it became clear they were going blithely down the Leninist garden path... probably since they could no longer depend on the Soviets to provide their propaganda, since the Soviets had been vanquished and were no more. If I wanted communist indoctrination, I could have just gone down to a Pathfinder Bookstore and read all the communist propaganda that my head could hold - no need for the public to pay to have it delivered to me.

So, buh-bye - I ain't gonna miss it. At all. I do find it funny how they were getting all that tax money and STILL begging the public for donations every couple of months because "PBS depends on YOUR donations to stay on the air".

Everything is a money-grabbing racket these days, it seems.

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[sailorsam]

hm, speculating on the effects of this






   

[Michigan Swamp Buck]

I was only a few years old when PBS got started, so I basically grew up with Sesame Street and other PBS programming. In a nostalgic way, I will miss it like the rest of my fading past. Like all the artists and celebs dying off and everything that is now so long gone and forgotten by most.

I did enjoy some of the British shows and nature documentaries, and Austin City Limits was cool to catch on weekends. I like maybe 10% of what they offer, but with all the other programming they keep coming out with, that percentage is shrinking.

I think I finally lost all respect for PBS when they went commercial while still on the government dole and begging for donations. Plus, even while I was growing up with PBS, I always thought of it as experimental, and our answer to sponsored propaganda TV or government TV like the BBC. It had some unique programs but never seemed to have the high production values or real commercial appeal. 

All in all, as much as I won't miss it, it will still sadden me like the death of someone I knew for my whole life. Not like a good friend has died, but like some neighbor that you had nothing in common with but who lived next door.