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Public/Community Radio Rides Roaringly; Roger Dodger A "Pledge Week" Pitch * One of our Albuquerque Public Radio Stations (we have two!) is KUNM . I have been involved with the station in various ways for years. I helped conduct focus groups with their listeners and I served on their board for four years. It's a really good station, something of a hybrid that may be unique in the country in that is is a "Public" station and a "Community" station. (Don'tcha see?) This has been pledge week, and they manage to make it quite interesting - a creative challenge. As an exercise in keeping it interesting, I wrote this little ditty: We don’t say it enough, but what we are asking you to support is a  non-commercial station . One of the biggest differences between commercial and non-commercial stations are their business plans - how they pay all the costs of running a radio station. Both privately or corporately owned and public