Public radio and TV executives took to the airwaves this
week in what turned out to be a successful campaign to fend off a U.S.
House of Representatives vote that would have decreased federal funding
to the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting (CPB) by 25 percent. The proposed $100 million cut was
restored in a vote late Thursday afternoon. John Hood wrote about the issue
in “The
Locker Room” and on Thursday, prior to the turnaround vote, he was interviewed by UNC-TV (the state’s
public TV network) about the issue. The interview, in which he debated
Ashley Thrift, the former chairman and current member of the UNC-TV
Board of Trustees, aired on “North Carolina Now.”