PBS president punches back at Romney

By artappraiser on Wed, 01/04/2012 - 6:20pm |

By Robert Bianco, USA Today, Jan. 4, 2012

[....] PBS only gets, in aggregate, 15 percent of its budget from the federal government -- but it's a percentage that is vital to smaller, poorer, mostly rural stations. "That money can not be made up. We try to leverage it very carefully."

As for Romney's suggestion that the service run ads, Kerger points out that PBS couldn't do that even if it wanted to -- it would violate FCC regulations. But even more, she says, changing PBS to an ad-supported network would inevitably change what it airs because the network would be forced to show programs that attract advertiser-friendly crowds [.....]

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http://content.usatoday.com/communities/livefrom/post/2012/01/pbs-president-paula-kerger/1