Bernard Chasan, in regard to the BBC and NPR: >I see no reason why the taxpayers, many (most?) of whom don't share >those opinions, should subsidize them. To repeat, public broadcasting does not HAVE TO BE supported by general tax revenues. The suggestion I brought up was to CHARGE commercial broadcasters a fee for their monopoly use of a radio frequency, and use these fees to subsidize an independent public broadcasting foundation modelled on the BBC. I mentioned the BBC as a model in regard to structure, not necessarily programming policy. Denis Fodor reports that German public broadcasting does better CM programming. So did Radio Sverige during the periods I lived in Sweden. CBC underwrites more modern music and even presses and markets CDs of Canadian moderns. A decent financial and organizational structure for public broadcasting would offer the possibility of improvements in programming, but would not guarantee perfection according to every point of view. Jon Gallant Department of Gnome Sciences University of Washington