<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><div><div><div><font color="#111111" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 24px;">A quarter of NPR's budget and a fifth of the aggregate budget of member stations comes from corporate sponsorship. I think NPR had something like 175 corporate underwriters over the last fiscal year. This includes Fox Television </span></span></font></div><div><font color="#111111" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><br></span></span></font></div><div><font color="#111111" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Incidentally, Seth MacFarland of "Family Guy" fame at Fox brought the "Cosmos" series to Fox. You would have thought PBS would have been a better fit for "Cosmos", but its host, astrophysicist Neil deGrassi Tyson, wanted Fox.</span></span></font></div><div><font color="#111111" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#111111" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Underwriting spots, unlike commercials, are governed by specific FCC restrictions, in addition to truth in advertising laws; they cannot advocate a product or "promote the goods and services" of for-profit entities</span></font></div><div><font color="#111111" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#111111" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cutting out the underwriting spots would kill the excellence of NPR's journalism. And if you think that the foundations, governments and private individuals who pay most of the rest of NPR's budget are any less dangerous to impartial news coverage than corporations -- think again. If you have skin in the game, the game is important.</span></font></div><br><hr id="zwchr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">From: </b><font face="Arial" size="3">"David" <uw@kzyx.org></font><br><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">To: </b><font face="Arial" size="3">kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org</font><br><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Sent: </b><font face="Arial" size="3">Monday, March 10, 2014 8:05:01 AM</font><br><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Subject: </b><font face="Arial" size="3">Re: [Kzyxtalk] Fwd: [MCN-Announce]- NPR & Fox?</font><br><br>
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list serve suggest the underlying innuendo is “Fox and NPR are one”,
the reality is that Fox Television has been spending a lot of advertising/marketing
money promoting the new Cosmos series airing on multiple Fox outlets. Their
film division also underwrites.</span></font></p>
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kzyxtalk-bounces@lists.mcn.org [mailto:kzyxtalk-bounces@lists.mcn.org] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Norman de Vall<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, March 09, 2014 10:34
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="4" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:bold">Date: </span></font></b><font size="4" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica">March
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">NPR News is now announced as being "brought to you by Fox
Broadcasting". I can't find anything on the internet to explain
this. Does anyone know how Fox has come to be closely associated with
NPR?<br>
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