This is the University of North Carolina's professional station. Founded in 1952 as student station, it was converted in 1976 to an NPR member with 23 paid staff members. This is the professional station at Central Michigan University. It is an NPR Member with 16 paid staff members. Now an organization called the University-Station Alliance has been formed to try to maintain better relations.
Many stations receive funds from government organizations.
These would be distributed from Communication Department budgets, etc. Government Grants Corporation for Public Broadcasting CPB is a private, nonprofit corporation created by Congress in 1967. CPB is the largest single source of funding for public television and radio programming. It distributed about 57-million dollars to radio in 1999. Fundraising KFJC KFJC receives a major portion of its funding from its on-air fundraising activities.