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National Public Radio (NPR) will broadcast its normally scheduled programs today after receiving an $8.5 million loan allowing the network to replay debts which threatened to halt its programming...
...loan from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) will avert a short-term financial collapse of the 281-station, federally funded non-commercial radio network NPR's recent economics woes including a $9.1 million deficit, has forced it to cut back on many of its programs and to fire several of its top executives and staff Jan Hanreth, an NPR spokesman said yesterday...
...NPR including local affiliate WBUR, will begin a centralized fundraising drive on Monday for the first time in its 14 year history. Hanreth said, adding that the money a would be used to pay back the local stations which have recently donated part of their own federal funding to help salvage the financially troubled network...
...potential bonanza has lured some unusual entrants. National Public Radio is developing a nationwide paging system that will bounce signals off the same satellite it uses for radio programs. The extra charge for beeping coast to coast is estimated at $5 to $10 a month. Says NPR Executive Richard Hodgetts: "Look at the people who are frequent flyers. There are a lot of people on the go all the time." Metromedia and American Express Co. have joined in a four-company venture that will also offer nationwide paging. NPR's partner in satellite beeping, Mobile Communications Corp. of America...