I don't think you'll find anything about Federal funding in my comment. My complaint was mainly about how our local station operates, and pointing out that the quality of the show depends on its production source which for this show most likely was not the network itself. That has nothing to do with how much money PBS gets from the Feds (and the local stations' fund sources vary considerably from what the network gets anyway). Of course, based on the "review" here I suspect this show will not be on my list for finding another source to view it from.