From MPR: Company Information: How Minnesota Public Radio Is Funded:
It’s expensive and complex to operate three services broadcast in the Twin Cities and throughout the region via a network of radio stations. We rely on a number of sources of income to do this. The largest source, 61%, comes from listeners who make financial contributions and become members and from business underwriting. Only 10% of the operating income comes from governmental agencies (most of that comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting).
That’s pretty impressive — for something called “public radio”, it’s almost entirely private. And it goes to show how important it is to realize that you don’t just vote at the ballot box.
(I do note that this only talks about MPR, not about APM, which actually produces a large number of MPR’s most popular shows. The business relationship between those two has always seemed hazy to me.)
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