Listen "The Spirit of Radio: WNCW vs. Project 2025"
Episode Synopsis
A few weeks ago, President Donald Trump ordered Congress to stop funding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Congress, including Polk County’s two congressmen, complied. That saved US taxpayers about a billion dollars, but it put in peril scores of public radio stations like WNCW that used to rely on the corporation for at least part of their budget. Plenty of stations are laying off staff and some of them probably won’t survive. I asked Joe Kendrick, programming and operations for WNCW how things are going in the face of the new reality for public radio in America. Useful links:Donate to WNCWJoe KendrickThe Spirit of Radio by RushProject 2025
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