The suits are wildly spinning for ‘GBH in Boston, in wake of the takeover of the student station at Bryant University. Bean counters at Bryant — acting the good industrialist as ‘GBH honchos did in busting up their union — have now begun to put that most favorable light on this latest acquisition, to wit: [...]
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The ‘GBH borg in Boston keeps gobbling up stations in the region. WGBH is taking over the Bryant University station WJMF in Smithfield, RI, and facilitating a power increase from 225 to 1200 watts for WJMF, which, as of August, will become a simulcast of WCRB “99.5 All Classical,” the classical music station acquired by [...]
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Battle of the Bands? Boston’s three NPR stations not only are airing similar if not identical news and music programs at the same time (WGBH’s Celtic on WGBH and WUMB’s Celtic Twilight With Gail Gilmore), as well as the head-to-head syndicated NPR news/talk programs on WGBH and WBUR. Two of them are producing competing spring music festivals at the same [...]
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Jeff Boudreau sent along this link to a scathing piece on the bostonmagazine.com site entitled “Dead Air: Why should taxpayers be asked to fund a union-busting, freeloading corporate behemoth . . . like WGBH?” In it, writer Eileen McNamara leads off swinging: REMIND ME AGAIN why eliminating taxpayer subsidies for public broadcasting is a right-wing idea? [...]
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Jeff Boudreau sends along this post from the website Nonprofit Quarterly, Ruth McCambridge’s “Cannibalizing the Competition? Public Radio Wars in Boston,” where it’s noted that any gains made by the move by WGBH to go talk-talk apparently came at the expense of WBUR, the reigning NPR station in Boston: If you are a public radio [...]
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Jeff Boudreau sent along this article from the website of In These Times called “At Boston’s Premier PBS Station, Unionbusting Tactics and a Koch Connection,” providing details about the union-busting move by WGBH suits in “resolving” its labor dispute. It seems that Tea Party mogul (Americans for Prosperity) and ultra-conservative financier David Koch, hyper-active in [...]
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One year ago today we started this site with the hope of shining a light on what we saw happening to public radio stations across the country. Whether it was the sudden canceling of popular shows, the fallacy of HD radio, or the creeping influence of national groups such as NPR, we wanted to point [...]
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The conservative mantra labels NPR as part of a vast “liberal media,” a view espoused vociferously by the right since the time of Reagan. But saying something loud and long enough does not automatically make it true. “The truth will out in a free marketplace of ideas,” journalism teaches the hapless communications student of today [...]
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The LUV newsletter took another shot at the corporatist trend at NPR news with its reporting on the reactor problems in Japan, chiding : “The radioactive core in a reactor at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant appears to have melted through the bottom of its containment vessel and on to a concrete floor, experts [...]
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Toady up, ‘GBH workers, it’s a new day in your workers’ paradise. Negotiations between the union and management ended without a word exchanged, the suits imposing their will as they saw fit. This post on the Facebook site for the Supporters of Folk and Blues on WGBH came courtesy of Jeff Boudreau in Boston, written [...]
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