[lbo-talk] Why Not Sell WBAI?

[Joseph Wanzala]

What Doug points is essentially correct. Most of the FTEs are indeed 
administrative/operations staff. However, there is, at KPFA at least a 
relatively large cohort of producers who are not 'on-air programmers' to be 
sure, but are part of programming as opposed to admin. This is especially 
probelamtic because instead of there being a pool of producers who provide 
assistance to a range of programs, there is a disparity in terms of 
resources. So several programs have one or two paid producers who work 
exclusively for those programs, while other programs, espeically unpaid 
programmers get no assitance from the station and have to rely on their 
resources.

Joe W.


>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Why Not Sell WBAI?
>Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:25:02 -0400
>
>Chuck0 wrote:
>
>>Let me make a stupid point, again. I know that running a project such as a 
>>radio station requires money for different things, but is anybody getting 
>>paid at WBAI who is doing on air shows? If people who have shows are 
>>getting paid, why can't WBAI replace them with people who will do 
>>programming for free? How about dropping syndicated programming? It would 
>>make more sense to tighten belts than to sell a progressive station.
>
>A handful of people who do shows are paid - mainly those with daily gigs, 
>and the chief announcer, for whom it's a full-time job. That's not where 
>most of the money is going. It's off-air spending that's the prob.
>
>Doug
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