and the RATS, take another one in the.................................HA ha!!!
Posted on 12/10/2008 1:07:17 PM PST by abb
Faced with a sharp decline in revenue, National Public Radio said today it will pare back its once-flourishing operations, and institute its first organization-wide layoffs in 25 years.
Washington-based NPR said it would lay off about 7 percent of workforce and eliminate two daily programs produced out of its facilities in Culver City, Cal. The shows include "Day to Day," which was aimed at younger listeners, and the newsmaker-interview program "News & Notes," which NPR hoped would attract African Americans.
The layoffs of 64 of NPR's 889 employees is designed to close a $23 million shortfall in NPR's current fiscal year, said Dennis Haarsager, NPR's interim president and chief executive in an interview. The cutback will affect all departments, including reporters, producers, researchers and digital media employees.
Until very recently, NPR has bucked the consequences of the shrinking economy, finishing its last fiscal year in September on budget, with operating revenues of about $158 million. Its programs, especially the daily news shows "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered," have remained popular, reaching some 26 million listeners per week. In July, its executives were projecting revenue growth in the new fiscal year, and additions to the organization's staff.
But the bad news has caught up in the past few months, as all four of its major funding sources have taken hits, leading the organization to revise its financial projections downward. It projects revenue this year to fall to $145 million, an 8 percent decline.
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When does “Only the things we want to consider are considered” get cancelled?
Not able to listen to N.P.R., about every 7 stories they run promotes the homosexual agenda.
hahahaha....
All Things Considered, I would say its a great day!
A breath of Fresh Air!
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving gang of socialists.
LA Observed reports that Cathy Seipp and others are organizing a campaign to withhold money from the station: "No Loh, No Dough."
: Just found the full script from Loh's commentary last night on Cathy's site.But I guess, in the end, I shouldn't be SURPRISED my people. . . sold me out. [reacted so defensively] Because there's a TIMIDITY. . . to public radio today. LEAN into your radio, let's talk. (silky) I mean, I'M a commentator who's already been FIRED, what do I have to lose? What I'm saying is, never MIND the FCC, secretly, in your heart, driving around in your car, don't you find public RADIO is increasingly. . . bland, vanilla. . . beige?
First comes the important breaking really HORRIBLE awful news: Bush! Anthrax! Dow dropping! Suicide bombs! Then there's all that reverent, hushed-voice . . . cultural TEMPLE-BUILDING. You know: here's a book that won a prize! Let's all praise. . . the book that won a prize. . . IN ENGLAND. 'Cause it's always BETTER if you won a prize in England. Now come your gentle commentators with droney politically-correct MURMURINGS about autumn leaves falling and, like, the wonders of. . . antique BASEBALL cards. Public RADIO'S supposed to be about independent thinking, independent FEELING, where we come alive. If even WE'RE going [Clear Channel]... Hello? Engineer? Are you there? Not tired, not on medication? Okay--I'm going to say it! What the BLEEP are we thinking?
I hope they lay-off whoever is responsible for programming their overnight music on WNYC.
It used to be a nice classical music station.
Now it’s just noise.
Money Honey interviews Sam Zell
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232/?video=958439696&play=1
How much money did NPR spend converting all those stations over to HDRadio? I am surprised they havent applied for a bailout. They can just add it to the automotive bailout, saying drivers need intelligent radio in their bailoutmobiles.
Better news would be to eliminate NPR and PBS totally!
Let us pray.
That Terry Gross, she’s aptly named, hayna? I live and work far enough out that my AM talk radio reception is weather-dependent, especially in the summer, and I often end up listening to, and yelling at, NPR while driving to and from work. Terry, though, almost never. She’s gotta have someone she dislikes to get me to stay tuned in. Her usual schedule of choppy, distracting interview questions to cable-channel sitcom directors and the like makes me want to dive into the radio & slap both of ‘em.
Ah, but I’m really disappointed Nina Totenberg didn’t make the cut.
My PBS network hub and regionals thinned the herd last week. There may be another round in the coming months.
They went from the alternative with NO commercials to one long commercial for worldwide liberalism.
Dear NPR:
All that work you did for Democrats since the beginning of the Iraq War was successful. Your intelligent propaganda overwhelmed the alternatives. But now, like the UAW, you have to face the results. Americans have restructured their spending habits. Affirmative action lending has also indirectly become redistribution of your funding and asset values. Trickle down economics works after all. Not as much is trickling.
WELCOME TO THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE, CAPITALIST STYLE!!!"
Some NPR programming is fascinating, but let the free markets get this sort of material to the logical outlets. I do not want to subsidize the “news” or state approved entertainment with my dollars. I may dislike, say, CBS news, but I do not have to buy their equipment and pay their staff...
After the Morning Edition, we have the Diane Rehm Show here in DFW. Man that is like listening to the radio version of Helen Thomas. Just bad, bad, bad , bad and bad.
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