Is KBCS turning into a corporate/commercial radio station?”
• “No. On the contrary, we believe that what we’re doing at KBCS will evolve the idea of community radio and what it means today, especially in large urban centers, and especially within a media landscape that has changed significantly even in the last three years. There will never be commercials on KBCS, nor will there ever be corporate involvement in any of our programming decisions.” Actually, the financial relationship between KBCS and entities like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting(CPB) continually threatens to erode the independence of Community Radio from corporate influence. That is because some of the qualifying language for CPB grants stipulates a minimum number of paid staff to qualify for funding. KBCS has had to increase their paid staff enormously over the last 7 years and that has resulted in a much larger overhead that burdens the station financially and makes it easy for them to rationalize protecting their jobs by disposing of your support for what they think is
