Dear TPN listeners, viewers and friends,

You know that we spend a LOT of time producing our shows for you.

And as we aren’t making a lot of money out of advertising, we’d like to ask for your support to help us keep TPN running. We have real costs in IT support, hardware, bandwidth, etc., as well as our time and effort. For the last four years, we’ve covered these costs ourselves. Outside a small amount of advertising that we have run, the majority of TPN’s costs have been covered by our founder Cameron Reilly and the TPN hosts.

Now, we know that paying for online content is probably new to some of you. You are used to getting it for free.

However, we do ask you to think about the idea of the people funding their own media. We all know that if corporate advertising is the main source of funding for the media, it influences the kinds of media that is produced and the messages they carry. We don’t want that kind of media to be the only kind out there. We want an independent media, run by the people and for the people.

If you want to support our efforts to bring you intelligent and entertaining content, please consider one of our donation plans below. I’m trying to work out a system to offer you “rewards” for supporting us. So far they consist of giving you some public kudos and, for higher levels of support, the opportunity to appear as a guest on one of our podcasts. If anyone has better ideas for things we might be able to offer in the way of “benefits”, then please email me.

Become one of the TPN 500 by signing up to donate the cost of a beer (and not even an imported beer!) to us each week via a $20 per month subscription.

If you’re not familiar with Paypal, don’t worry - you can use any regular credit card.

If you want to make a once-off donation, you can do so below as well.

A once-off donation to the value of your choice: