Listeners’ producer Dakota Runyon-Trapp and Daniel Bloomfield spoke with Floyd Aragon of Southern Oregon Public Broadcast  Service in order to figure out what the station is in terms of potential budget cuts. Along with potential roadmaps for the future of the station, what’s going in with the station, and what does PBS mean to the public at large and how they can go about supporting it.

Show notes & links:

• Public Broadcast Service – PBS for short, a non-profit TV broadcast for the general public is free to watch.
• Oregon Public Broadcasting – OPB for short, Portland, Oregon’s equivalent to a PBS station.
• Southern Oregon PBS – SOPBS for short, Southern Oregon’s Publice Broadcast Services, located within downtown Medford, Oregon.
• Jefferson Public Radio – Radio Station located on the grounds of Southern Oregon University, located within Ashland, Oregon, could potentially merge with Southern Oregon PBS.
• National Public Radio – A publically funded radio station and news outlet, also potentially at risk of losing funding.
• Impact on Southern Oregon PBS – Details on Trump’s executive order to end public funding for PBS from a news station located down the street from Southern Oregon PBS.
• PBS & NPR’s response to the cuts made to public access funding – an article from deadline cited within the episode, that mentions how both PBS and NPR are responding to the executive order.

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Thanks to Leif Olsen for composing the music for the series of Oregon Speaks: Voices from this moment.