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WQLN: all state funding threatened

February 7th, 2009

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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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Tags: Dave Richards, Dwight Miller, Erie, Erie Times-News, public television, WQLN

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The Feed for Thanksgiving Weekend, 2008

November 29th, 2008

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Country 98 takes hit for Citadel’s bigger market stations: In Dave Richard’s interview with Citadel/Erie GM Jim Riley published Friday on GoErie.com, Riley was quoted that although revenues are up in Erie over last year at the four-station cluster, they continue to have to cut staff. “We’re part of the company and had to participate in getting costs under control,” Riley said. Therein lays the inherent downside of corporate ownership: even though your division or market is making its nut, you have to suffer for the underperformance of other markets. In Citadel’s case, their larger markets are greatly behind targets, so they proportionately suck more money out of their thriving smaller markets. For Country 98 it means going with a syndicated morning show, Big D and Bubba, and Elly McVay wears the cowboy hat in middays and the biker do-rag for drive time on Z-102. Be watching for some background on Big D & Bubba next week on P&T.