Like all things,Philosopy Talk进化而来的。事实上，在我们成立十周年之际，我们已经到了发展的关键阶段。如果我们想继续为大家带来高质量、发人深省和有趣的节目，我们就需要各位听众的帮助。这只是我们推出在线思考者社区的一个原因。通过思考者社区，我们希望把我们节目的所有权交给你，我们的听众。所有公共广播电台在某种程度上都是由听众所有的，因为它们的收入的很大一部分直接来自听众的捐赠。我们试图把所有公共广播电台采用的所有权模式带到我们的节目中。

We have adopted thsi new ownership model because after 10 years of getting roughly 80% of our financial support from Stanford University,中国伊朗亚洲杯比赛直播can no longer count on that level of support from the University. We feel nothing but gratitude for the generous support Stanford has given us over the years. We fully accept the challenge of raising a significantly greater portion of our revenue from independent sources. We MUST meet that challenge if we are to continue to bring you quality content online and on the air.

然而，你应该知道，挑战是巨大的。支持我们的潜在来源是非常少的。公共广播电台根本不会为像我们这样独立制作的节目支付运输费用。

Moreover, there are precious few granting agencies interested in funding Philosophy on the radio. Surprisingly, after 10 years of our doing this show, with ever increasing success, few granting agencies believe there to be a substantial public appetite for philosophy on the radio. Potential corporate underwriters, who are really interested only in their own bottom lines, are even more resistant to the idea.

Now you may think that by giving to your local public radio station, you are indirectly giving to support programs like ours. For both programming produced by the local stations themselves and programming produced by the big three public radio networks—National Public Radio (NPR), Public Radio International (PRI), and American Public Media (APM)—this is to a large extent true.

But for independently produced programs like ours, this is definitely not true—not in the slightest. We receive no funds whatsoever from public radio stations. Stations simply will not pay carriage fees for what they regard as "niche" independent program. We conservatively estimate that if we were to attempt to charge carriage fees, we would lose over 70% of our audience. This is one reason there is so little independently produced programming on the public radio airways. The revenue to support such programming just isn't there.

Moreover, there is also the fact there is little space on the dial for such programming to begin with. Public radio is dominated by a combination of programs from the big three national networks already mentioned and by local programming produced by the various stations themselves. Probably 95% or more of the total airtime is devoted to such programming. This already makes programs like ours that fall into neither of those categories an extraordinarily tough sell to program directors.

Given the stark odds against our success, we are certainly proud that中国伊朗亚洲杯比赛直播has been able to swim against this massive tide, with slowly increasing success, for the past 10 years. However, given our new financial reality, without your help it will be harder for us to keep swimming for the next 10 years.

With your help, we are confident we can keep riding out against the incoming waves. That is why we invite you to take ownership of our program through our Community of Thinkers. The Community of Thinkers is our way of achieving a direct relationship with our listeners, a relationship not mediated by the stations, the networks, or the underwriters.

By becoming a Partner in our Community, you directly empower us to keep swimming against the tide of a sea of programming dominated by powerful national networks and locally produced programs. It is not that we are trying to singlehandedly redirect the tide. That would be too much for one small program to achieve. We just want to find a more secure place of our own within the sea.

Join us in our efforts! Help us keep up the fight to bring an independent voice to the public radio airwaves. Become a partner in our Community of Thinkers!

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