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In article <732.2B243B33@gisatl.FIDONET.ORG> Ben.Coleman@p42.f411.n133.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Ben Coleman) writes:
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> > What, anyhow, is so "noncommercial" about a TV network that has to
> > spend so much time begging the public for money, and trying to
> > extract money by means that are neither straightforward nor tasteful,
> > such as making 4-year-olds beg for stuffed animals?
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>I agree that the particular incident you relate is out of line, and from what you say, it sounds like GPTV may be worse than the typical 'public' broadcaster.  But I must say that there are public broadcasters that have tried to do fundraising in a less obnoxious way, but have found that they can't raise enough money that way.  I'm a recent 'import' from West Virginia, and my experience there is that the public broadcasters in WV(and particularly West Virginia Public Radio) have gone far in trying to do t
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>eir fundraising without being obnoxious about it.  WVPR in particular has tried everything from a 'quiet drive'(one or two minute reminders at 'natural' breaks through the day) to one or two-day 'weekend' drives (instead of the normal whole-week campaign).  And they tried to do it in a way that wasn't obnoxious - some of their short appeals were quite entertaining.  But the non-obnoxious drives don't ever seem to raise enough money.  [...]
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GPTV tried the 'quiet drive' approach a few years ago in a campaign called
"Quiet on the Set."  During regular breaks, Captain Kangaroo himself would
give a one or two minute reminder to donate to GPTV to help keep it "quiet
on the set" so they wouldn't have to resort to the telethon approach.  It
didn't work here either.

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