{"id":727,"date":"2001-11-19T15:47:29","date_gmt":"2001-11-19T20:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=727"},"modified":"2001-11-19T15:47:29","modified_gmt":"2001-11-19T20:47:29","slug":"the_private_bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/19\/the_private_bus.html","title":{"rendered":"The Private Business of Public Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting piece on NPR<\/a> and the ways it is — and isn’t — like commercial radio.<\/p>\n

The fact is that underneath its quirky, bohemian image, NPR – which by its own estimation is the biggest producer of news, information and cultural programming in radio – subtly has evolved into something that in many ways resembles a well-run, aggressively entrepreneurial company. Granted, if NPR, which employs about 600 people in the Washington area, were a private company, it would be a fairly humble player in the media business. The network and its sister organization, the NPR Foundation, together are projected to generate about $144 million in revenue this fiscal year – spare change compared to the $4 billion garnered annually by Clear Channel, commercial radio’s big Kahuna. (Or to look at it another way, NPR and the NPR Foundation’s revenue after expenses is projected to be $21 million – about what Rush Limbaugh earns in salary from January to July.) <\/p>\n

As a regular listener to Morning Edition <\/i>and All Things Considered<\/i>, it was interesting encountering something about how NPR works other than the Abomination Which Is Pledge Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interesting piece on NPR and the ways it is — and isn’t — like commercial radio. The fact is that underneath its quirky, bohemian image, NPR – which by…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-estate","category-media-moguls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2433,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/25\/linky_love.html","url_meta":{"origin":727,"position":0},"title":"Linky-love","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 25-Jun-02 8:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"NPR is reconsidering its linking policy. 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As has been noted in the past, it is not...","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging & Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging & Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1090,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/17\/the_irony_gods.html","url_meta":{"origin":727,"position":5},"title":"The Irony Gods Strike Again","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 17-Oct-01 7:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Off driving to dinner tonight, I was caught on traffic on the Schuykill (pronounced \"Skoo-kill\") Expressway and fumbled around on the radio, looking for NPR. Found it. 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