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Enjoy. Tl;dr-. The primary funding sources for local affiliates is member and buisness contributions. The primary funding source for NPR is local affiliate fees for programming. Both local stations and, to a lesser extent, NPR receive grants from CPB. CPB is federally funded, $445 million in FY14 (The .5 million was earned interest). However, the lion's share of CPB funds go to local access TV, PBS, administrative costs, and TV programming grants- 77.7% in FY14. The remainder goes to local public radio stations, radio program acquisition/syndication, and new radio program and station development projects. The CPB grants, direct fed dollars, account for 6% of all local station funding and 2% of NPR's funding.
To contrast that, the FY14 Defense Budget was $647.79 billion. DOD gave away $500 million dollars worth of surplus (stuff it bought and didn't need) equipment in FY13.
Which one is the waste of funding again?