announcement

Making waves since 1983

KMUN 91.9fm
KTCB 89.5fm
KCPB 90.9fm

Federal legislators you can contact to make
the case for community radio funding:

Oregon Congressional Delegation

Senator Jeff Merkley
One World Trade Center, Suite 1400
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, OR 97204
503-326-3386
http://merkley.senate.gov/contact/

Senator Ron Wyden
911 NE 11th Avenue, Suite 630
Portland, OR 97232
503-326-7525
http://wyden.senate.gov/contact/

Washington Congressional Delegation

Senator Patty Murray
Jackson Federal Building, Suite 2988
915 2nd Avenue
Seattle, WA 98174
206-553-5545
http://murray.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p
=ContactMe

Senator Maria Cantwell
915 Second Avenue, Suite 3206
Seattle, WA 98174
206-220-6400
http://cantwell.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

Representative Brian Baird
(Baird's term expires Dec. 31. after that
contact Representative Jaime Herrera
info@jaimeherrera.com )

Chair of the Senate Committees on Appropriations
(This committee will recommend allocations for
public radio funding)

Senator Tom Harkin
731 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-3254
http://harkin.senate.gov/contact_opinion.cfm

As conventional (corporate) media has failed much of its duty to inform a democratic
society, public broadcasting, including your Coast Community Radio, has asserted its
power to fill that void.
If the new Congress makes good on its threat, our coverage of their actions will be
unplugged.
Who wins in that scenario will not be those of us who care about a community's access to
more than spin.
Importantly, what Joanne witnessed while attending meetings in Washington, D.C., in
early December is that our representatives do listen to their constituents - we the people.

Notes for further reference:

UPDATE May, 2011
Congress voted to fund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting at essentially the
same level as its last appropriation, but eliminated funding for PTFP, our source for
equipment purchases and upgrades considered necessary for Coast Community
Radio's plans.

$20 per month
($240 annually)

UPDATE 9/27/2011
FreePress.net reports the “Super Committee” is set to slash the federal budget by
$1.4 trillion, with funding for NPR, PBS and other public media on the chopping
block.

Funding for public broadcasting comes at a miniscule cost to taxpayers, and it
accounts for 1/100th of 1 percent of the overall budget. Every federal dollar spent
on public media is matched by six more dollars from other sources. But even this
tiny investment from the federal government supports tens of thousands of jobs
around the country.

FreePress.net goes on to report:

At least half of the 12 Super Committee members have in the past
attacked funding for public broadcasting.
Taking down NPR and PBS has been a decades-long goal of political
extremists in Washington who are threatened by public media’s brand of
facts-based investigative reporting.
Even President Obama’s deficit committee has recommended that we
zero out all funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, including
support for the educational and news programming on which millions of
people rely.

Update 10/18/2011 from 170MillionAmericans.org
Last week, Representative Doug Lamborn (CO) urged the Joint Select
Committee on Deficit Reduction (the “Super Committee”) to eliminate
all federal funding for public broadcasting. This is not Representative
Lamborn’s first attack on public broadcasting. You may recall that he
was the sponsor of H.R. 1076, the bill aimed at defunding NPR, which
was approved by the House earlier this year.

Unfortunately, opponents of public broadcasting aren’t going to let up.

Update 12/19/2011 Reprieve!
from Broadcasting & Cable:
News from Washington today reports "preserving
noncom [non-commercial broadcasters] funding in the
FY2012 appropriations bill that was approved over
the weekend and signed by the President.
"That funding had been under fire, including from a
bipartisan panel advising the administration on budget
cuts, but in the end the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting got $445 million for FY2012, it is
forward-funded to try to insulate it from politics, plus
preservation of that forward-funding mechanism,
which some Republicans wanted to phase out.

  Coast Community Radio thanks its listeners for supporting the station
through the threatened budget cuts, and especially for the letters and calls
made to legislators on our behalf.
  For an all-embracing mix of music, coverage of local news and public affairs,
announcements of events and even lost pets, we couldn't do it without you!
  The Board of Directors of Tillicum Foundation operating the three stations of
Coast Community Radio are determined to strengthen the awareness our
community has of KMUN 91.9FM Astoria, KTCB 89.5FM Tillamook and
increasingly, KCPB 90.9FM, and to recognize the importance of community
support.
  Thank you from everyone at Coast Community Radio!