President Donald Trump and others believe public media is left-leaning<\/a>.<\/p>\n The funding cut and phase-out of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will have a direct impact in Tampa Bay at both WUSF, Tampa\u2019s NPR radio station, and at WEDU, the area\u2019s PBS station.<\/p>\n Paul Grove, the President and CEO of WEDU, said the funding cut would leave Tampa\u2019s PBS station with a $2.8 million hole.<\/p>\n WFTS<\/p>\n \u201cThe gap that we have is a huge gap,\u201d he said. \u201cWEDU has been around for 70 years \u2014\u00a0nearly \u2014\u00a0and we expect to be here for another 70 years.\u201d<\/p>\n Grove is optimistic, but the cut will have an impact.<\/p>\n It will need to look for other revenue generators. Local programs it produces might be delayed. WEDU might also have to buy less national programming.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s some national programming that will decrease,\u201d Grove said. \u201cWe\u2019ll see some of the seasons of some of the favorite programs possibly shrink.\u201d<\/p>\n He also can\u2019t rule out a reduction in staff.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t know just yet,\u201d Grove said.<\/p>\n WUSF is facing a roughly $800,000 loss in funding, according to General Manager JoAnn Urofsky.<\/p>\n \u201cThe stations are staying on mission to provide news, public safety information and classical music and arts to the residents of Florida despite cutbacks of $800,000,\u201d Urofsky wrote.<\/p>\n However, the radio station will need donors to help fill the funding gap. Same for WEDU.<\/p>\n \u201cIt can\u2019t just be a small bump for a short period of time. It has to be something people believe in long-term,\u201d Grove said.<\/p>\n Only with that support will his station be able to continue its mission \u2014 a mission that Grove says is without a political agenda.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t believe PBS and WEDU is left-leaning,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Grove said the only agenda at WEDU is to educate, to document the area\u2019s history and culture, and to inform Tampa Bay during emergencies.<\/p>\n Donate to WEDU\u2019s current fundraising campaign at this link<\/a>. Donate to WUSF\u2019s current campaign at this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n Florida man who was married to three women at the same time sentenced for felony bigamy<\/b><\/p>\n Henry Betsey, Jr. married three Florida women he met on dating websites in three different counties over a two-year period, but never got divorces or anulments.<\/p>\n Florida man who was married to three women at the same time sentenced for felony bigamy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 From Mr. Rogers to Sesame Street. From Downton Abbey to the documentaries of filmmaker Ken…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":113804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[4472,47395,171,71652,71653,4473,71654,71655,30120,71656,23967,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-113803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-abc-action-news","9":"tag-corporation-for-public-broadcasting","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-funding-cut","12":"tag-funding-for-public-media","13":"tag-hillsborough-county","14":"tag-ken-burns","15":"tag-mr-rogers","16":"tag-npr","17":"tag-paul-grove","18":"tag-pbs","19":"tag-tv","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114960940758399953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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