[Kzyxtalk] Fwd: [MCN-Announce]- NPR & Fox?

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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 


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. 


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 


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. 
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While I don’t feel like wasting time doing deep research on this, and since the topics that usually come up on this 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. 



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From: kzyxtalk-bounces at lists.mcn.org [mailto:kzyxtalk-bounces at lists.mcn.org] On Behalf Of Norman de Vall 
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 10:34 PM 
To: John Coate 
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Subject: [Kzyxtalk] Fwd: [MCN-Announce]- NPR & Fox? 



John, 


Do you know if this is accurate and, if so, 


the reason why? 


With Thanks, 


Norman 








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From: karen inwood < wminwood at mcn.org > 


Subject: [MCN-Announce]- NPR & Fox? 


Date: March 9, 2014 5:49:34 PM PDT 


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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? 
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