Current: Manager at community radio KBOO-FM resigns
Sept 23, 2013 12:45:34 GMT -8
Post by Admin on Sept 23, 2013 12:45:34 GMT -8
Three days ago someone called Dru Sefton published an article about Kboo and Lynn Fitch at current.org. Why is mysterious. Everything has been said before at WWeek, Mercury, Indymedia, etc. They link to the lastest Tribune article that sounds like it was co written by Theresa Mitchell, but without half of the context. This appears to focus on Lynn Fitch exclusively. Readers can judge:
www.current.org/2013/09/manager-at-community-radio-kboo-fm-in-portland-ore-resigns/
Current claims to be a newspaper for public media:
Must have been asleep for that last 15 years because I never heard of it. Or it's mostly a trade magazine. Begging the question why the didn't do their own interview/research....
Wikipedia on American University School of Communication, who owns Current:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_University_School_of_Communication
www.current.org/2013/09/manager-at-community-radio-kboo-fm-in-portland-ore-resigns/
Manager at community radio KBOO-FM in Portland, Ore., resigns
Published on Current.org, September 20, 2013
By Dru Sefton
Lynn Fitch, station manager of KBOO-FM in Portland, Ore., has resigned after losing support from the community radio station’s board of directors, reports the Portland Tribune.
On Sept.15, members of the KBOO Foundation elected four new board members, all recommended by the group Committee to Keep KBOO as KBOO, which opposed Fitch’s policies.
The previous board had promoted Fitch from development director to station manager last year, when the station faced increasing financial pressures. “The board had given Fitch a mandate to change personnel and other policies,” the newspaper noted, “but those provoked a backlash at the alternative station, long a voice for music, news and public affairs programming not found elsewhere on the Portland radio dial.”
The station currently has about 4,850 paid members, down about 6 percent from last year, and no longer receives CPB funding.
Copyright 2013 American University
Published on Current.org, September 20, 2013
By Dru Sefton
Lynn Fitch, station manager of KBOO-FM in Portland, Ore., has resigned after losing support from the community radio station’s board of directors, reports the Portland Tribune.
On Sept.15, members of the KBOO Foundation elected four new board members, all recommended by the group Committee to Keep KBOO as KBOO, which opposed Fitch’s policies.
The previous board had promoted Fitch from development director to station manager last year, when the station faced increasing financial pressures. “The board had given Fitch a mandate to change personnel and other policies,” the newspaper noted, “but those provoked a backlash at the alternative station, long a voice for music, news and public affairs programming not found elsewhere on the Portland radio dial.”
The station currently has about 4,850 paid members, down about 6 percent from last year, and no longer receives CPB funding.
Copyright 2013 American University
Current claims to be a newspaper for public media:
For 30 years, Current has been the newspaper about public media in the United States; for 15 years it’s been a website, too.
The paper comes out 23 times a year, usually biweekly, every other Monday.
The paper comes out 23 times a year, usually biweekly, every other Monday.
Must have been asleep for that last 15 years because I never heard of it. Or it's mostly a trade magazine. Begging the question why the didn't do their own interview/research....
Wikipedia on American University School of Communication, who owns Current:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_University_School_of_Communication
