[Kzyxtalk] Budgets & news

[Patricia Kovner]

Thanks for that info.  I don't know what you mean by restricted income for NPR at KMUD, as they don't have NPR.  They do, however, have many reporters contributing to their news show, but I don't know who is paid or how much.  I bet some of them are volunteers.
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On Thu, 2/20/14, Tim Bray <tbray at wildblue.net> wrote:

 Subject: Budgets & news
 To: pkovner at yahoo.com, kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org
 Date: Thursday, February 20, 2014, 10:07 AM
 
 
     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.
 
       
 
       KMUD does not have a full hour of local news, it is a
 half-hour
       program.
 
       
 
       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.
 
       
 
       Tim Bray
 
       
 
       On 2/19/2014 3:07 PM, Patricia Kovner wrote:
 
     
     
       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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