Tag: Kansas
Kansas governor proposes 18 percent cut to pubcasting support
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) has proposed reducing state funding for public broadcasting by $100,000 for fiscal year 2016, a 16 percent ...Friday roundup: Kansas spares pubcasting funding; letter sheds light on dismissal in Ga.
Plus: Vermont Public Radio spies a threat to its Montreal listeners, and another film draws from This American Life.James Lee Mathes, 73, and Fred Burgess, 64
Two public broadcasters active in southern California during the 1960s and 1970s, James Lee Mathes and Fred Burgess, retired to Kansas together ...FCC denies former staffers’ nonrenewal request for KPTS, Wichita
The FCC decided in July 1999 that it did not have grounds to get involved in an extended staff-management conflict at public ...Lawsuits are latest fallout from 1996 staff revolt in Wichita
The bitter conflict that led to the departure of the top two executives at Wichita, Kan., public TV station KPTS in 1996 ...Parenteau resigns Wichita position under staff pressure
After six weeks of intense conflict with the majority of his staff, the president of Wichita’s KPTS, Zoel Parenteau, resigned his position ...Wichita staff uprising forces v.p. resignation
Uneasy staff members have returned to their work at Wichita’s KPTS after demanding the firing of the station’s top two executives and ...
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