A $250,000 funding cut from Daytona State College puts WDSC 15 at risk. The station serves the Daytona area and Central Florida including part of the area that was served by Orlando's WMFE. WMFE is being sold to a faith based organization.
According to the article in News Journal, "Administrators said the college has already cut the $250,000 it costs for the PBS programs for the next fiscal year and is also struggling to pay $1.5 million overall to run the WDSC 15 station, which includes production costs and other programming."
The college, the station and its board are looking for ways to save PBS for Central Florida. Once idea is an alliance with other Public TV stations - "a Central Florida Broadcast Partnership to "preserve public broadcasting in Central Florida." GM Bob Williams says, "if the board agrees, everything will need to be in place before July 1."
I seems clear that these PTV stations are not self-sustaining through their program offerings. Member support is not enough to keep them on the air. The funding puzzle for these stations is much more complex.
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