February 7th, 2009 
joel Dave Richards reports this morning in the Erie Times-News that embedded in Governor Ed Rendell’s 2009-10 state budget is a total reduction of state funding for Erie’s public broadcasting stations WQLN-TV/FM.
In the article, WQLN President/GM Dwight Miller says that the stations received $800,000 a year in state grants for the past decade, which represents one-quarter of their annual budget. Miller says that if the cuts hold, it would mean certain elimination of several jobs, cuts in community education initiatives, as well as on-air programming enhancements currently on the schedule.
Of course, the Rendell budget is just the initial volley in a lengthy budget process, where the funding could be restored at some level as legislators dig into the spending decisions. State Rep. Flo Fabrizio is quoted in the article as being ready to fight for restoration of most of the dollars.
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