This is a very important discussion because many if not most community radio and television stations face this problem. What form of governance is appropriate to adequately represent the interests of station producers, the viewing or listening public, and also ensure the station addresses important community/local/global issues? How are conflicts among these (sometimes)competing interests resolved fairly? Any examples out there? Greg Boozell gboozell@juno.com -- Doug Henwood wrote: One of the problems I have with this is the definition of "democratic." The constituency for a radio station is highly plastic, and the number of votes required to win seats on the board is quite small (as low as 200 in some cases). So a gang of loons could easily organize themselves and vote in representative loons, who could then program loonily, shrinking the audience to a hard core of loons, etc. Listeners driven away by poor programming would then have no voice. But maybe things work better in the Bay Area. Doug ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk