Comments about ‘KBYU may lose its PBS affiliation’

How many Lawrence Welk shows and old movies shown 7 times on the weekend can you take.

but they can make up for it with the new radio station announced today. so all is well in zion.

"programming should be noncommercial, nonpartisan and nonsectarian."

"This Old House" is pretty neutral, but have you watched any of the other standard PBS shows? The libs are at the helm of most media outlets.

I thought freedom of speech was offered to religions as well as gay groups (who are just fine with their programming)...am I missing the democratic slant?

It does make sense. Churches are capable of funding their own programming as well as their own stations. Whether we have faith or not, requiring non-believers to fund the delivery our messages is not appropriate.

....KBYU broadcasted other religious programming besides LDS? Would that be considered "educational" by PBS....or scary-scary by the LDS.

Please. DO drop KBYU. I don't want a dime of my tax money supporting them.

After all, the First Amendment DOES say "regarding the establishment of religion..." and Utah's already got an established religion in place. Quit taxpayer-supporting it.

Broadminded, tolerant, all accepting, inclusive, all one world, diversity seeking PBS is shocked, shocked I tell you that there is religious programming going on here. And we in Utah were all having such a good time watching a few church programs when we could be watching "why Billy has two mommies." I guess tolerance is to be extended, just not in certain directions. Fare thee well PBS.

Fairness-and-balanced policy? How is a PROHIBITION of a religious worldview fair and balanced?

Perhaps KBYU should band together with other stations and develop their own programming. And ensure that PBS never benefits from any of this programming...

Good. KBYU needs to get rid of those secular, liberal programs such as Sesame Street and This Old House. They just push the socialist programs.

I think the time for KBYU and KSL is passed.

I can get what I want from BYUTV and KUED respectfully, LDS content on one, PBS on the other. Great system.

KSL has been showing material for years that has made me uncomfortable being aired by an LDS Church owned station. I am a Mormon and it's not that I want those shows off the air, it just seems out of place on a Church owned station.

Let the Church concentrate on BYUTV and dump the other two. There was a time when they were needed but that time is gone.

Who cares PBS has become yet another Left Wing Anti God in life peice of Junk

I don't live in the area, but think it would be a real shame if PBS programming were not available to central UT. Let's hope they can work things out.

Another reason to stop donating to PBS.

NRP likes the idea of community radio. It's not like a Fourth of July event held in a BYU venue in Utah with conservative entertainers that divides the community politically.

Long live PBS and the left wing liberals who produce it. At least it is a breath of fresh air in the brainless sewer we call entertainment today. If KBYU loses their PBS standing it won't be from the religious programming as much as the lack of imagination behind their schedule. They've always been the worst PBS station in UT.

Anything the current government does is sure to be the wrong thing at the wrong time. This is just another instance of what is happening to the current generation.

The issue here is with the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."

Just as the government cannot prohibit religious expression on PRIVATE channels or in traditional public fora, it also cannot FUND expressions of any certain religion. If taxpayer dollars go towards a station that broadcasts the views of one religion without also opening that station up to all others, then it looks like the government is helping or endorsing that religion. That a violation of the Establishment Clause (see above).

Refusing to fund religious expression is not the same as banning it, and is thus not a violation of the free expression guarantees in the First Amendment. BYU is still fully allowed to broadcast religious programming on its own; the people on this board that are claiming that religious expression would be silenced by this action are incorrect.

All of this is pretty well established by 200 years of Supreme Court cases clarifying the law.

Sesame Street is socialist? Have you watched it lately?

Why doesn't the left leaning PBS send thier tax payer money back to DC so that they can use it to help fund National Health care? Why all the hostility toward a University that doesn't use tax payer money?

PBS is not needed. It was set up a long time ago when there were only 3 other stations. It is not needed and our taxes can be lowered or spent on something else.