underwriter

An underwriter is a finance professional who determines the level of risk of an insurance application, and then calculates what the cost of the cover will be.

The rest comes from an array of private funding sources, including corporate underwriters and, yes, viewers and listeners like us.

While Los Angeles outlets have a larger population to draw on for financial support from listeners and local underwriters, the loss of federal dollars would be significant.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr, a Trump appointee, has ordered an investigation into PBS and NPR regarding whether member stations violated government rules by identifying their programming underwriters on the air.

Instead of merely running a company logo before its programming, PBS let corporate underwriters place messages that looked more like standard commercials.