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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...
...NPR is in big money trouble." Susan Stanberg, host of "All Things Considered," a popular network news program, said yesterday during a preview for the fundraiser, adding, "We can't sell deodorant or soap "NPR "needs a different kind of support for its different kinds of broadcasting." She added...
...officials from NPR and the CPB, the agency which disburses federal funds to public television and radio stations, reached a compromise settlement late Wednesday night calling for CPB to advance the network the $500,000 it needed to meet today's payroll...