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Emily Rooney back on WTKK?

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kjlassoc

I heard Emily Rooney on Michael Graham's show this moring (post-election coverage). I thought she was told to take her punditry to another location after she didn't invite Jay Severin to her WGBH soirée. Was there a reconciliation that I missed?
 
Emily isn't a pundit, she's a media insider based on past employment. That's what these people do, they talk about the business to each other. I think TKK had a budget problem and were forced to end the association with her over money lol (or so they said).

I'm assuming the Graham thing was just a one-time guest appearance.
 
A followup to my own post. I noticed that WGBH (television) is advertising on WTKK. Perhaps this has something to do with Emily Rooney being back on the station, albeit not with Severino but with Graham.

What is equally interesting is that Michael Graham was giving Rooney a hard time about WGBH (PBS) being subsidized with federal funds. Of course, that doesn't prevent his station from selling ads to them!
 
I heard that too. I wonder how the WGBH federal subsidy compares with annual revenue from campaign ad buying in the private sector? This is a serious question - not a jab at conservatives (in case there is any thin skin out there).
 
Finn said:
I heard that too. I wonder how the WGBH federal subsidy compares with annual revenue from campaign ad buying in the private sector? This is a serious question - not a jab at conservatives (in case there is any thin skin out there).
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Of course, the fair comparison would be WGBH vs another single station, rather than all of them combined. But, even with that, I would think the WGBH subsidy is bigger (than all of them combined.) There was really only one horse race in Mass, Obama and Clinton. Also, stations are required to sell political candidate spots at the lowest possible rate, and the stations pay taxes on that revenue, whereas WGBH doesn't, and, in fact, even its non-Federal revenue is a tax freebie for the station and a write off for the contributors.

You can't even make the case that the candidate spots on the commercial stations are funded partially with Federal matching funds, since the three largest players in terms of ad spending, Obama, Clinton, and Romney, all opted out of the fund match program for the primary, and McCain and either Obama or Clinton, will probably opt out in the general in order to get around the mandated spending limits .

I, of course, am against the Federal funding of both broadcasters and political candidates.

Regards,
TSB
 
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