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More Pacifica drama...KPFT impact?

https://prn.fm/much-money-pacifica-owe-amy-goodman-democracy-now/

If you are wondering how the Pacifica O&O crisis keeps escalating and Pacifica O&O people seems to scapegoat Amy Goodman oddly enough. Say Amy Goodman and her crew really decided to cut Democracy Nows contract with the Pacifica O&O's. Will Pacifica be gone sooner and quicker?? Also Amy Goodman's crew have branched out to other venues in the past two decades to adapt to the current media landscape such as appearing on TV on smaller PBS Affiliates, having the show on Youtube, Free Speech TV and others doing podcasts and so on. The problem is more on the rest of Pacifica though

The network’s biggest star – Amy Goodman, host of the independently produced Democracy Now! – is also its biggest creditor. She is owed an estimated $2.1m in unpaid broadcast fees.

Observers trace the travails to 2001 when a group of rebellious listeners and broadcasters took control and instituted an elaborate governance structure of multiple boards, sub-committees and painstaking elections.

The result, according to Matthew Lasar, author of the 2005 book Uneasy Listening: Pacifica Radio’s Civil War, was continuous feuding between rival factions. In a Nation article earlier this year, he compared the network to the “late Ottoman Empire of public broadcasting” and urged progressive outsiders to step in and save it before it was too late.
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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/10/pacifica-leftwing-radio-kpfk-wbai-financial-collapse

https://www.youtube.com/user/democracynow

https://freespeech.org/shows/

https://www.linktv.org/shows
 
Miss Tuned said:
Without wishing to get into political discussion, I believe there is still a space for radical radio, but it has to be done well.
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I don't think so.

Most of their shows are very "subgroup" focused. You go from Progressive talk, to Christian Chicano music, to an Arab show, to LGBT talk, to alternative punk rock. I can't think of one person in this world that would stay tuned to all of those shows. If anything, there is a massive contradiction of ideas and values throughout their programming (which is bad for ratings). Being "diverse" for the sake of being "diverse" doesn't work in radio. You need a linear format that will bring in a specific demographic that will stay tuned in. There's a reason why Sean Hannity isn't on the same network as Rachel Maddow.

If Pacifica really wants to retain the image of being "diverse", then they need to look at the world of podcast. Their current variety format is destined to fail eventually as more and more people run towards the internet for their "fringe" ideas.
 
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