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Public Broadcasting Atlanta names Jennifer Dorian CEO
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Dorian previously worked as GM of Turner Classic Movies.
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Wonya Lucas exits Public Broadcasting Atlanta to oversee Hallmark Channel
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As an NPR board member, Lucas led the committee that oversaw an investigation of sexual harassment by NPR news leaders.
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CPB’s Curren to retire, Reveal expands, and more comings and goings in public media
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Curren has been CPB’s c.o.o. since 2006.
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GPB Radio to operate Atlanta’s WRAS without tax-based funding
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Georgia Public Broadcasting will fund its new daytime public radio news service on Atlanta’s WRAS through private revenues, not state subsidies, according to Michael H. McDougald, a broadcaster who chairs the state network’s governing commission. GPB “has no intention of using taxpayers’ money to support this new initiative,” McDougald said in an open letter responding to criticism from Public Broadcasting Atlanta, which broadcasts a hybrid format news and music service to the state capitol on WABE-FM. McDougald said the state-owned pubcasting network expects earned revenues to fully support its news and talk programming on WRAS. GPB took over daytime programming of Georgia State University’s 100,000-watt FM station on June 29 through a channel-sharing agreement with the university. The deal drew criticism from GSU students who previously controlled all programming on the station, supporters of their music service and Public Broadcasting Atlanta, a community licensed public radio and TV service.