Viewers Like You: Difference between revisions

The [[Trope Namer]] is [[PBS]], whose stations and original programs used to be funded almost entirely by viewers. (Some stations still are.) For this reason, most PBS programs still end their acknowledgements with "Made possible by ... Viewers Like You." Odds are, fewer viewers donate than not (which makes "Viewers Like You" more accurate than a simple "You"). People usually donate to [[PBS]] not because it helps keep the station running, but because neat "gifts" get thrown in (albeit for far more than the free-market rate), and because it's the PBS equivalent of [[Ratings]]: the sorts of programs that bring in heavy donations during pledge drives are the sorts of programs that the station will renew. Most of the grant money comes from airtime-hungry corporations, not-for-profit foundations, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ("A private corporation funded by <s>taxpayers</s> the American people").