South Dakota Public Media: Still kicking after the federal check bounced
Turns out, telling the government to take a hike doesn't necessarily kill the local news station.
A year after the federal cash cow vanished, South Dakota public broadcasting is somehow still breathing. Everyone expected the lights to go out and the signals to go dark when Donald Trump signed that bill, but the local station just kept rolling.
Instead of folding, they leaned into the community. They basically traded bureaucrats for bake sales and local donors. It’s a strange experiment in survival, proving that people might actually want their local news enough to foot the bill themselves when the big guys stop writing checks.
It’s a classic case of local grit triumphing over the D.C. budget axe.
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