Jesse Walker on what's next for public radio

One of the radios in my collection, a 1970s Admiral table radio.

If you follow the news, you know that Congress has voted to cut off funding for public TV broadcasting and National Public Radio. 

Nobody knows what will happen. Perhaps foundations and individual public radio donors will step up. Perhaps the pessimists are right, and some public radio stations will shut down.

I listen to public radio a lot, mostly classical music and jazz broadcasts. Of course, that's old fashioned. Anyone with an Internet connection and  Bluetooth speaker can listen to music without having to own a radio. I mentioned in an earlier blog post that I collect radios, and I was asked in the comments what I do with them. I listen to them!

Jesse Walker, who wrote an interesting book on alternative radio, has some thoughts on what non commercial radio stations can do to keep the doors open.