“Years ago, many years ago there used to be a public service announcement that had an American Indian cry as he walked along garbage strewn highways up to a landfill. This is what PSAs were like on 70's TV. Does anyone remember it besides me? “ Yes. The reason there were any PSA’s at all is that when the FCC was first created and chartered, our legislators saw (correctly, IMO) that the airwaves were a public resource belonging to We The People. Therefore, when they sold lease rights for specific bandwidths to private interests, for broadcast purposes, they felt the People’s transfer of use rights, but not ownership, needed to include PSA's so the People’s daily needs for community service were met. I cannot find it now, but my recollection is that the original number of hours of PSA’s (free public service announcements) was 25hrs per week. I suspect that the “news” qualified as a PSA back in the day, but now not so much unless it is PBS or a non-profit, like a university news program. Times have changed, the FCC has increasingly been co-opted by private media conglomerates, who very much have non-public motives in any and everything they broadcast, which is why so many of us are ardent supporters of RP. Long live RP!