System/Policy
Pennsylvania’s WITF, ‘LNP’ newspaper eliminate 24 jobs
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A spokesperson said the restructuring resulted from last year’s merger between WITF and the daily newspaper.
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A spokesperson said the restructuring resulted from last year’s merger between WITF and the daily newspaper.
Avanza’s goal “is to be not only a radio station but a community resource,” says Program Manager Edgar Zuniga.
Appreciating a longtime talk show producer who “made me a better host because it seemed unforgivable to let her excellent work go to waste.”
NJ PBS received $1 million, its first appropriation in a decade, while seven Pennsylvania stations lost support.
Van Hoesen joined the station in 2001.
The staffers are seeking voluntary recognition of their union from CEO Jim Schachter.
“It’s BIPOC filmmakers telling stories from their own communities,” said Nick Price, series producer with Reel South. “It’s not people who are from outside the South coming in and telling what they conceive of the South.”
Board member Ruby Calvert said setting aside the initiative for another year is “the right thing to do.”
WHUT’s broadcast signal will get new equipment and a power boost to serve as the ATSC 3.0 host station, carrying not only its own programming but streams from four major commercial stations.
In an alternate reality in 1983, NPR President Frank Mankiewicz, desperate for cash, unloads the network’s arts programs on a consortium of major-market stations. Where would arts programming be today?
PBS CFO and Treasurer Tom Tardivo said the new dues amount to a “modest increase.”
Tong has worked for “Marketplace” for more than 16 years.