@matigo NPR built a new building in 2013 [washingtonpost.com] which cost them $201 million to build. Guessing there's a lot of overhead in that number. :P
Having already washed the children's bedding this weekend, I woke up to find a cat had barfed in my bed. So I'm now washing mine. Excellent. :P
@matigo If you prefer to read: here's the relevant quotation from NPR's Wikipedia page [en.wikipedia.org]:
When questioned on the subject of how corporate underwriting revenues and foundation grants were holding up during the recession, in a speech broadcast on C-SPAN before the National Press Club on March 2, 2009, then President and CEO Vivian Schiller stated: "underwriting is down, it's down for everybody; this is the area that is most down for us, in sponsorship, underwriting, advertising, call it whatever you want; just like it is for all of media."
@matigo NPR is under no delusion what they're doing is advertising either: http://media.phoneboy.com/misc/VivianSchillerNPR.mp3
@matigo Just remember, if a show has advertising, you are the product. https://www.youtube.com/watch
@matigo the only way "value for value" works is when you're a couple of people, e.g. No Agenda, Daily Tech News Show. NPR has too much overhead and I don't see how, in general, they're going to make a go at it being totally funded by "listeners like you" (versus traditional advertisers and large grants, which is how they are funded today).
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