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Originally Posted by Clevanator
In Rochester NY, WXXI, the PBS station headquarters, is like a palace, and far newer, more luxurious and spacious than Rochester's commercial network affiliate stations. I used to donate money to PBS, but when I saw the inside of the facility, I was disgusted. I say pull the tax dollar life support plug and let them make a living like everyone else - The Learning Channel, The Discovery Channel, and the History Channel have ALL found business models that work for them.
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This may be a little off the topic, but when I see this kind of subject come up I like to state that not all public stations are high-on-the-hog or palatial.
I work for a public radio station (not public TV): there are two full time staff TOTAL....total staff budget for salaries for the whole station is around $60,000 or less.
We are a no frills, no fluff NPR afffiliate station that still uses some 1970's era equipment and has community volunteers for our music programs. Our budget comes about 85-90% from pledges from listeners and 10-15% from a Corporation for Public Broadcasting grant.
Just wanted to put in my two cents that there are public stations that are making it on the contributions of listeners and are not wasteful or fancy.