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Public broadcasting's total revenues reached $1.917 billion in fiscal year 1995 (ending September 1995), according to preliminary figures released by CPB in August 1996. That was a 6.8 percent increase over the fiscal 1994 total of $1.794 billion. Taking inflation into account, the "real purchasing power" growth was about 4 percent in fiscal 1995.
Of the total 82.4 percent was nonfederal money and 53.1 percent was from non-tax-based sources.
Dues and donations from station members grew 6.8 percent, $27 million; foundation grants grew 12.5 percent, or $12 million.
The figures include revenues of the CPB-recognized radio and TV stations as well as their national organizations such as NPR, PBS and PRI.
Total income for the field grew nearly six-fold in the first decade of federal funding (from $66.7 million in 1968, to $391.6 million in 1978) and then nearly three-fold in the second decade (to $1.12 billion in 1988). This table follows the growth in the 1980:
| Dollar figures in thousands | FY82 |
FY86 |
FY90 |
FY93 |
FY94 |
FY95 |
TOTAL INCOME |
$845,214 | $1,134,009 | $1,581,447 | $1,790,095 | $1,794,631 | $1,917,191 |
FEDERAL INCOME SUBTOTAL |
197,625 (23.4%) | 185,694 (16.4%) | 267,369 (16.9%) | 369,527 (20.6%) | 329,975 (18.4%) | 338,343 (17.6%) |
| CPB | 172,000 (20.3%) | 159,500 (14.1%) | 229,391 (14.5%) | 253,309 (14.2%) | 275,000 (15.3%) | 285,640 (14.9%) |
| Satellite system replacement | 0 | 0 | 0 | 65,327* (3.6%) |
0 | 0 |
| Other federal funds | 25,625 (3%) |
26,194 (2.3%) |
37,978 (2.4%) |
50,891 (6.5%) |
54,975 (3.1%) |
52,703 (2.7%) |
NONFEDERAL INCOME SUBTOTAL |
647,589 (76.6%) | 948,315 (83.6%) | 1,314,078 (83.1%) | 1,420,568 (79.4%) | 1,464,656 (81.6%) | 1,578,848 (82.4%) |
State & local tax-based sources |
301,038 (35.6%) | 378,828 (33.4%) | 473,837 (30%) |
475,176 (26.5%) | 509,528 (28.4%) | 560,481 (29.2%) |
| Local governments | 42,353 (5%) |
50,879 (4.5%) |
59,810 (3.8%) |
56,230 (3.1%) |
55,927 (3.1%) |
57,517 (3%) |
| State governments | 166,515 (19.7%) |
213,069 (18.8%) |
262,219 (16.6%) |
254,715 (14.2%) |
272,018 (15.2%) |
319,825 (16.7%) |
| Public colleges & universities | 92,170 (10.9%) |
114,881 (10.1%) |
151,808 (9.6%) |
164,232 (9.2%) |
181,584 (10.2%) |
183,139 (9.5%) |
Private sources subtotal |
346,551 (41%) | 569,487 (50.2%) | 840,241 (53.1%) | 945,392 (52.8%) |
955,128 (53.2%) | 1,018,367 (53.1%) |
| Private colleges & universities | 12,870 (1.5%) |
26,335 (2.3%) |
31.204 (2%) |
23,244 (1.3%) |
26,049 (1.5%) |
26,642 (1.4%) |
| Foundations | 22,108 (2.6%) |
38,343 (3.4%) |
71,070 (4.5%) |
99,585 (5.6%) |
96,927 (5.4%) |
109,025 (5.7%) |
| Business | 100,486 (11.9%) |
170,828 (15.1%) |
262,448 (16.6%) |
285,380 (15.9%) |
301,322 (16.8%) |
294,194 (15.3%) |
| Subscribers | 142,076 (16.8%) |
245,614 (21.7%) |
340.944 (21.6%) |
390,570 (21.8%) |
399,225 (22.2%) |
426,261 (22.2%) |
| Auctions | 20,392 (2.4%) |
22,915 (2%) |
22,760 (1.4%) |
21,207 (1.2%) |
20,590 (1.1%) |
21,147 (1.1%) |
| Other private sources | 48,619 (5.8%) |
65,451 (5.8%) |
111,815 (7.1%) |
125,407 (7%) |
111,014 (6.2%) |
141,098 (7.4%) |
| *Over three years, fiscal years 1991-93, Congress appropriated a total of $198 million for CPB to rehab the public TV and radio satellite systems. Figures compiled by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. | ||||||
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