Shocking as it may be to believe, there are parts of the country still without Internet access due to either geographic barriers or lack of financial means to build out the necessary infrastructure, thus some folks are still dependent on radio and local TV stations for their news and entertainment. As of 2022 per the US Census Bureau, about 11.5 millions households lack Internet access.
The federal funding may be gone, but NPR and PBS will still largely be able to move on despite some of their member stations being sacrificed since many of them are rural stations where their budgets are more dependent on federal funding to keep afloat.
What does pbs have that the internet doesn't?
Shocking as it may be to believe, there are parts of the country still without Internet access due to either geographic barriers or lack of financial means to build out the necessary infrastructure, thus some folks are still dependent on radio and local TV stations for their news and entertainment. As of 2022 per the US Census Bureau, about 11.5 millions households lack Internet access.
The federal funding may be gone, but NPR and PBS will still largely be able to move on despite some of their member stations being sacrificed since many of them are rural stations where their budgets are more dependent on federal funding to keep afloat.