Who pays when public radio goes dark?

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The board

Six blocks, one per beat. Each card shows the provider that actually ran — a fallback nobody can see in the record is a substitution, not a fallback.

Block 1cold open

One point one billion dollars in federal funding for public radio and television stopped in July twenty twenty-five. A rescissions package eliminated it.

F1
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Block 2stakes

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributed federal funds to more than fifteen hundred local public radio and television stations since nineteen sixty-seven. Millions depended on that network.

F2
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Block 3evidence

WPBS in Watertown, New York lost about one million dollars. That was a third of its budget. The station cut its workforce by thirty percent.

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Block 4evidence

KUAC in Fairbanks lost one point two million dollars and reduced its overnight broadcasts. Basin PBS in West Texas lost forty-eight percent of its revenue.

F4
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Block 5turn

CPB cut roughly seventy percent of its staff and began closing out grants after October first with no new funding. Yet some metropolitan stations saw donation surges.

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Block 6kicker

When the federal conduit closes, the bill moves elsewhere. It lands on listeners, on foundations, on whoever steps in to fill the void.

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Every submission, rejection, retry and take measurement, newest first. This is literally the audit trail rendered.

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  19. 00:45:33script6 blocks written
  20. 00:45:33decision.scriptpass — 6 blocks, every claim traced to a fact after 5 repair pass(es) — F5 entered but unused after an explicit ask
  21. 00:44:18decision.scriptreject — block 2: POL-5 — 28 words (need 23-27). Estimated ~10.8s. | block 5: POL-5 — 28 words (need 23-27). Estimated ~10.8s. | block 1: this line states "two" without tracing to a fact. Map it or cut it — a number on screen is a claim. | block 2: label '1,500 stations' maps to no entered fact. A word printed on a prop is a claim in three words. (after 6 attempts — surfacing rather than retrying further)
  22. 00:43:22decision.scriptreject — block 1: POL-5 — 29 words (need 23-27). Estimated ~11.2s. | block 3: POL-5 — 1 sentence (need 2-3) — sentence-end pauses are what fill the ten-second window, so one long sentence runs short. Estimated ~8.8s. | block 3: the mapping quotes "WPBS in Watertown, New York lost about one million dollars, a third of its budget, and reduced its workforce by thirty percent", which is not in this line. The mapping has drifted from the narration. | block 3: this line states "one million", "third", "thirty percent" without tracing to a fact. Map it or cut it — a number on screen is a claim. | block 3: this block traces to no fact at all. Its role is "evidence", which is reporting — only the kicker may be pure framing. Map at least one assertion to a fact, or replace the block. | block 3: label 'WPBS Watertown' maps to no entered fact. A word printed on a prop is a claim in three words. (after 6 attempts — surfacing rather than retrying further)