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,director of friends
of PBSWisconsin. Thank you for
watching the PBS NewsHour. Andthank you for
watching PBSWisconsin. We're
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on Wisconsin Public Radio. I'malso an
avid viewer of PBS news
and I'm so glad to
bevolunteering here this evening
.You rely on PBS Wisconsin
forthis kind of wonderfulprograming. And when
you giveyour gift of support, we've got
some great ways to say thankyou.
We have the PBS news mug.It's a
new logo if you've got
one of the old ones, and that's
available for your gift of
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giftof $15 a month or
more, we havea tote. The PBS news
Tote,sponsored by viewers like me.You can
show off your support ofPBS news
, and for $20 a month ormore
, we'll send you both themug and
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(800) 236-3636. It feelsterrific when you
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believe in.>> Hi, I'm
Linda Berman, avolunteer here with PBSWisconsin
, and it's a greatopportunity to use
this quickbreak to give us a call
andpledge your support. Pledge yoursupport
for viewer supportedprograms such
as NewsHour.Really incredible
, reallywonderful integrity for
journalism. But, you know, it'sviewer supported and
it's yoursupport that keeps this
going.It's easy to do if you become
asustainer, you can decide whatamount
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you keepthe news going
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of quality programing. So consider giving
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.>> Just like Linda said, we
areviewer supported support fromviewers like
you is our single largest source of income.
Yes ,we receive support
from federaland state sources, but it's your
support for programs like this
that makes all the difference.Viewers like you
, we rely upon your support for this
exceptional and independent journalism
that we see on PBSNewsHour that we
get to
enjoy on Washington Week and on
our local programs like Here and
Now, andindependent documentarie s,
both from PBS and PBS
Wisconsin. Youknow by now that
PBS NewsHour isshort on sensationalism, but
it's not short on reporting. Wetake the
time on NewsHour to follow
the story, not to make itfit into
a short segment, but to
fully expand on the full story
to bring you the news that youneed. We
look for the storiesthat matter.
We go beyond the headlines. We go
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And it'syour support that makes
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maybe you've beenwatching for a
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gift of $10 a month.And for that,
we'll send you thenew PBS news
mug. It has a new
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agift of $15 a month, we'll
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for a gift of $20 amonth, we'll
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is that you help makethis
happen. We take your giftand we add
it to your neighbor'sgift. We add
it to my gift, andall of a
sudden, we have areally important part
of thebudget for PBS Wisconsin. Andfor
this important news program.>> And
this news program isgreat because
you, in the comfort of your home,
will bekept up to date with
electionresults, with news, even with
arts. Jeffrey Brown's segments have really been incredible.
I've learned so much about
thearts in our country. I neverknew
and yet that's on NewsHour.And in addition
to that, if youcall
and pledge your support, you can also get
our PBS app,which is our Passport
. This isgreat. If you miss any
episodes,you can watch them
, you can stream them. This is
somethingthat we have just never thoughtwe'd
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we watch on Passport. Andthis is an
opportunity for youwhen you
call and pledge at anyof the
levels that we'vesuggested today. But most
importantly, remember that you are the
viewers who aresupporting us. So your support
is so essential right now. And
we're asking you to go to your
phones. Or you can go online atpbswisconsin.org
and pledge yoursupport at
1-800-236-3636. Ifyou want to
call us now, give usa call
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PBS, and allof the
local programs that we bring to you. We
have so manyways to say thank you
duringthis break, including "Airwaves"all of the
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"Airwaves" our monthlyprogram guides so that you
can know when the programs
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