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This trope is about two things with media production: People who donate money directly to the producer or distributor of works, in hopes of getting the work made, or in the hopes of seeing more works like them. The media could be anything from a creator's blog or comic book to a documentary film. Viewers of programs, TV networks or radio stations whose primary funding comes from voluntary donations, rather than advertising or subscription. The networks do funding drives where hosts plead with viewers and listeners for donations, warning them that without their generosity, the programs will likely be canceled. The Trope Namer is PBS, whose stations and original programs used to be funded almost entirely by viewers. (Some stations still are.) For this reason, most PBS programs still end their acknowledgements with "Made possible by financial support/contributions to your PBS station from... viewers like you." (Since November 1, 1999, they've been following this with "Thank you".)note If they skip right to that, it's a sign production of the program has ended and viewers are just paying for the airtime. It's implied that's what contribution money from viewers is earmarked for to start with. Odds are, fewer viewers donate than not. People usually donate to PBS not just because it helps keep the public station running, but because neat "gifts" get thrown in (albeit for far more than the free-market rate), and because it's the PBS equivalent of Ratings: the sorts of programs that bring in heavy donations during pledge drives are the sorts of programs that the station will renew. In more recent years, PBS has offered a streaming service available only to donors. Most of the grant money comes from airtime-hungry MegaCorp firms (especially those hoping to garnish their public image), not-for-profit foundations, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ("A private corporation funded by taxpayers the American people", eg an annual appropriation from Congress). While the type of media seeking donations could in theory be any genre, in practice, the genres tend to be those that find it hard to garner advertising support or commercial subscribers, such as educational programs, kids' programs, documentaries, experimental art films, scholarly topics (history, philosophy, political science), public affairs shows, and community programming. These educational and public interest shows are "good for you", but they lack the action, laughter, and fanservice of mainstream commercial content, so they likely wouldn't get made unless viewers and listeners like you call in right now to donate. Operators Are Standing By to take your donation pledge. Call now! But Wait, There's More!. Call in the next five minutes and get a PBS tote bag or umbrella... See also Thanking the Viewer and Please Subscribe to Our Channel. |
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In The Simpsons episode "Missionary Impossible", Homer gets frustrated with a PBS telethon interrupting a show he was watching, and calls in a fake donation with enough money to end the telethon then and there. Unfortunately for him, PBS finds out where he lives and comes to collect whether he likes it or not, resulting in him getting attacked by Fred Rogers, the Teletubbies, and the Sesame Street characters; he runs to Reverend Lovejoy for sanctuary ("Their bloodthirsty pursuit is made possible by a grant from the Chubb Group!") and gets sent abroad as a Christian missionary. The episode is eventually revealed to be Fox itself hosting a telethon, with Bart calling in a gigantic fake donation. | |
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In Justice League, The Culture Channel is used as a Brick Joke in the 2-parter "Injustice For All". The Ultra-Humanite is seen earlier in the episode enjoying an opera on the Culture Channel in prison, to Lex Luthor's displeasure. Later, when he's been paid off to betray Luthor, he donates it to the Culture Channel, leading to this hilarious parody of the line: | |
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Every review that Bobsheaux does always open up with his girlfriend Raven Fox's voice saying this, before the opening sequence. Which by the way, also plugs his Patreon. | |
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Spoofed in the first episode of No Soap, Radio, which credits the show to Trans National Petroleum, The Updyke Foundation, and Rico's Boom-Boom Room. | |
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Later episodes of The Gaming Historian end with an announcer stating this trope after the host says their Signing-Off Catchphrase (and also when they doesn't end that way). | |
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Batman '66: Parodied. In one story, False Face creates a TV series about Batman and Robin and plans to use it to kill the real heroes on live TV. He says it's thanks to "viewers like you" when he announces their upcoming demise. | |
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Heavily parodied on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 8th-season episode Overdrawn at the Memory Bank. Since the show's writers/cast chose not to go all-in on recently-departed star Raúl Juliá, the next best target was public television pledge drives (the movie had been produced for PBS). So Pearl, having found her way to Castle Forrester an episode prior after escaping Ancient Rome, started a pledge drive to go play the slot machines. | |
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Nothing, Forever added a Weather Forecast segment in Season 2 Version 1.4, the true purpose of the segment is to run a ticker at the bottom of the screen thanking the Stream's Patreon subscribers. | |
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The Welcome to Night Vale podcast is funded mostly by merchandise sales and listener donations, with the creators offering gifts for people who set up a regular monthly contribution | |
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The Martha Speaks episode "Martha's Chair" has Mrs. Demson see the "Viewers Like You" segment while watching Antiques Roadshow. She then rudely replies "You're welcome!" This is also an example of Biting-the-Hand Humor, as Martha Speaks airs on PBS itself, though on the PBS Kids block, not around the same time as Antiques Roadshow. | |
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Many, many YouTubers do this. | |
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Parodied in the opening for the Strong Bad Email, "autobiography": | |
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