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A lot more then 2% of PBS funding comes from the federal government. My local station, KCET, the main socal/L.A. station gets 7% of it's funding from federal grants. But this is in a large market with a lot of people watching and contributing. There are some stations in smaller markets that get over half of their funding from the feds. Do away with federal funding, and there will still be PBS stations in L.A., San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Boston, and other large cities, but some of the ones in smaller markets will not make it.
Now I like some of the programming on PBS, but most of it is cr@p. Of course I think most of the stuff on the for profit broadcasters is cr@p too so maybe I am not the right one to ask.
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