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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">According to the financial reports,
KMUD has a slightly larger income than KZYX. Looking at the 2012
Annual figures (available on each station's Website), KMUD
received $562K and KZYX received $521K. Those figures are for
"Unrestricted" income; KMUD had an additional $147K of "Restricted
Income" which is tied by the donor to a specific use. I can't
quite find what all of that is supposed to be earmarked for, but a
chunk of it is CPB grants and direct contributions restricted to
NPR programming.<br>
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KMUD does not have a full hour of local news, it is a half-hour
program.<br>
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I don't think there is a single, simple reason why KZYX could not
sustain a 50-minute local news program. (It was never quite a
full hour.) It takes a lot of effort to produce that much news,
more than one full-time newsperson, and so the budgetary
restriction is a big part of it. It isn't a simple matter of
trading 28 hours/week of NPR for 5 hours/week of local news.<br>
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Tim Bray<br>
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On 2/19/2014 3:07 PM, Patricia Kovner wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Is the reason KZYX no longer has a full news hour, because NPR programming has priority and there is not enough $$ for both? I'd like to know how KMUD budgets it's much smaller income to expand its already full news hour, with several reporters, and no NPR.
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