-=> Quoting Raymond Yates to Nancy Backus on 11-29-05  19:21 <=-   
      
    NB> not every hour, either), and passes them to WJSU.  I think that that's   
    NB> also what is happening with the newsfeeds to WRUR, that it actually   
    NB> comes through WXXI-AM rather than being WRUR hooking up directly to   
    NB> the same national feed.  Both WJSU and WRUR are FM stations, BTW.   
      
   Minor correction... that's WJSL (not U)...  I misremembered...   
      
    RY> NCPR might be like what we have here, where the state runs the system   
    RY> from one location. WUNC, (Chapel Hill) has transmitters nearly all   
    RY> across the state, and they have one main distribution point. in effect,   
    RY> it's one station, part state funds, part donations. they do the same   
    RY> thing here with Public TV, it covers the state , the ID list suggests   
    RY> that might be the case with you, too. I don't know, one would have to   
      
   That sounds about right.  Dunno how the station is funded, other than by   
   listener support, and then the grants that build on that... and I don't   
   think that the government (state or local) has anything to do with the   
   running of it, but the system is run from one point, with transmitters   
   all over the area.  I'm familiar with NCPR mainly from the time we spend   
   at our camp in the area...  :)   
      
   Here in the Rochester area it is much smaller of a deal.   
      
    RY> see who owns what. Down in our courser of the state Public radio is   
    RY> community owned,with national feeds that we pay for., and some local   
    RY> programming, isn't it's ahrd to tell anymore whats what.   
      
   When the Public Radio stations first started, they got a great deal of   
   federal and state funding, but I think that even from the beginning   
   there also had to be a substantial amount of community support of all   
   sorts.  The station here (actually a conglom of AM FM TV and service to   
   the Blind, now with extra TV on cable with digital, etc) has always been   
   community owned and operated, and with ever-decreasing amounts of govt   
   support... as they tell us ad infinitum every pledge drive...  :)  But   
   yes, we have the national feeds that they pay for as well as a good   
   amount of local programming.  Some of the local programming also gets   
   sold to other stations for their use, like Richard Gladwell's "With   
   Heart and Voice"...   
      
   Except for special programs, and the NPR news on the top of the hour   
   (not every hour, either), the FM is all local programming during the   
   day, and then they do use the "Music through the Night" from MPR over   
   night except for special occasions.  They buy various orchestra concerts   
   for the 8-10pm slot, and carry some special programs every weekend, like   
   Pipe Dreams, Prairie Home Companion, Thistle and Shamrock, the Met, From   
   the Top, Echoes...  Otherwise the weekends are also local hosts putting   
   together a live show...  mostly classical.   
      
   AM is more news, although they also feature jazz.  More of their   
   programs are bought, less local, although there is local news coverage   
   and local programming there too.   
      
   ttyl          neb   
      
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