NPR audience not getting any younger (YAY!)

[quiller]

The young leftists aren't listening to the same dreary crap their elders are...and now National Proletariat Radio is scared.

The median age of public radio listeners has roughly tracked the median age of baby boomers. The median NPR listener was 45 years old in 1995; now he or she is 54, according to Tom Thomas, co-chief executive of the Station Resource Group, a public-radio strategy and research consortium. "The [aging] trend has been gentle and continuous for the last 20 years," he said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/npr-is-graying-and-public-radio-is-worried-about-it/2015/11/22/0615447e-8e48-11e5-baf4-bdf37355da0c_story.html

[Solar]

I wonder who tracked all three of their listeners?

[quiller]

I wonder who tracked all three of their listeners?

It was a party-line call-in poll. Cost all of $2.98.

[kit saginaw]

It was a party-line call-in poll. Cost all of $2.98.

PBS, in my household, always meant the Pet Baby-Sitting channel...  I'd leave the radio on when I went to work, because somebody said that pets' days are less hum-drum when classical-music and docile voices fill the air.  My cats and dogs probably heard more symphonies than any 10 philharmonic-critics, combined.

[quiller]

PBS, in my household, always meant the Pet Baby-Sitting channel...  I'd leave the radio on when I went to work, because somebody said that pets' days are less hum-drum when classical-music and docile voices fill the air.  My cats and dogs probably heard more symphonies than any 10 philharmonic-critics, combined.

What amuses me in a cold clinical way is the prospect of how this graying will affect the Snowflake Fascists™(*) who have demanded life conform to their specifications, where everything is free and nothing they do has consequences. They will not donate. They were not listening to begin with, as the Boomers and the Me Generation all listened. That's the liberal old-folks station, just as WJR was in our respective youths.


(*) Snowflake Fascists™ = Mona Charen's term for our pampered college kids

[daidalos]

PBS, in my household, always meant the Pet Baby-Sitting channel...  I'd leave the radio on when I went to work, because somebody said that pets' days are less hum-drum when classical-music and docile voices fill the air.  My cats and dogs probably heard more symphonies than any 10 philharmonic-critics, combined.

Poor animals. God I can't imagine being forced to listen to NPR's liberal claptrap everyday for hours on end.

I think I'd probably gouge my own ear drums out so I wouldn't have to hear it!

[Solar]

Poor animals. God I can't imagine being forced to listen to NPR's liberal claptrap everyday for hours on end.

I think I'd probably gouge my own ear drums out so I wouldn't have to hear it!

That show, Lake Woebegon, or something to that effect, an insomniacs dream show always comes to mind when I think NPR, the dull, droning monotone of depression and dread that permeates the airwaves of leftist radio drivel.

Shoot me now.

[Dori]

I tried listening to NPR...once.  Couldn't stand who ever was hosting and had to turn it off. 

[kit saginaw]

No wonder I've never seen anyone carrying a PBS 'tote-bag'.  Nobody's listening to it. 

[Dori]

No wonder I've never seen anyone carrying a PBS 'tote-bag'.  Nobody's listening to it.

The only PBS I'm aware of is on television.  I do like some of their "Masterpiece" programming. 

[kit saginaw]

The only PBS I'm aware of is on television.  I do like some of their "Masterpiece" programming.

That even went belly-up in my mind, via the Clintons and the Archer Daniels Midland (the underwriter of Masterpiece Theater and Masterpiece Mystery) scandals... price-fixing, bribery, collusion...

http://community.corpwatch.org/adm/pages/power_adm.php

During the 1992 election campaign then-ADM CEO Dwayne Andreas, along with his associates, contributed $1.4 million to party organizations and $345,000 to individual candidates; in 1994 they gave $657,000 to parties and $224,000 to individuals. In 1994, the same year President Clinton pushed through legislation requiring 30% of gasoline sold in America's most polluted cities to contain ethanol products, he was given a $100,000 donation.

Sound familiar?  Not to mention putting well-placed boardmembers in other well-placed positions, in Hilary's case.  To influence the entirety of PBS's programming.

Yeah, ADM went hat in hand to Republicans too.  Before Fox News and the internet, whistleblowers had their options.  When non-conservative journalism had vestiges of integrity.