[grc] Fwd: CPB funding and some stations

[Jama]

General Provisions for Community Service Grant Recipients, which has a pretty helpful Table of Contents.  Page 23. 

http://www.cpb.org/stations/grants/radio/generalprovisions/FY-2015-Radio-General-Provisions.pdf 

Jama 


PS     Long live WORT!   (KBOO too, congrats on surviving without the fed $, rock on!)

  Hey WORTniks, please come to the next GRC and reprise your 2010 workshop about your staff structure, OK? 



On Apr 15, 2015, at 5:18 PM, sybil augustine wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> Our CPB grant is essential, though it it's no longer enough to fully pay
> for two staff positions here. KBOO still doesn't have a paid music
> director, right?
> Most of us can't get someone to work full time for free.
> 
> While I'm at it -- I cannot find any references online to any portion of
> CPB grants being restricted.  I know they did away with having separate CSG
> and NPPAG grants, but where and how is it stated that a portion of our
> total grant is still earmarked for programming acquisition and promotion?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help, and welcome back, Marty!
> Keep up the good fight, everyone!!
> 
> Sybil
> 
> 
> 
>> I believe KBOO has done without CPB funding for many years.
>> 
>> Per Fagereng
>> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Marty Durlin
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 2:56 PM
>> To: Grass Roots Radio
>> Subject: [grc] CPB defunding
>> 
>> Hi GRCers,
>> 
>> I'm returning to the community radio world after a hiatus -- just became
>> the manager of KZMU in Moab, one of the stations on CPB's chopping block.
>> After 23 years as a community institution, KZMU is now deemed not to have a
>> big enough NFFS to be supported by CPB. Too small to succeed. And I'm
>> wondering how many other stations are in the same boat. I think the
>> situation calls for concerted action -- action aimed at CPB, with our
>> supporters and elected officials.
>> 
>> Please let me know if your station is one of the soon-to-be-defunded, or
>> among the stations that were never funded because of budgetary reasons.
>> Also, any ideas you have about the situation are most welcome.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Marty Durlin
>> marty.durlin at gmail.com
>> marty at kzmu.org
>> _______________________________________________
>> 
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