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Fort Collins KUNC alters weekend schedule, citing "news burnout"

Mark Roberts

Mark Roberts

KUNC, the NPR member station for the northern Front Range, is changing its weekend schedule starting February 28 to feature "more life and culture programming". KUNC explains its reasoning:

These changes come as KUNC continues to navigate financial pressure tied to last summer’s annual CPB funding loss and reflect research around news-burnout. Audiences value and rely on trusted, independent journalism, but also want more variety - and, at times, a break from the intensity of nonstop news. Research has shown rising news avoidance and feelings of overload among audiences.
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Full details: KUNC refreshes weekend lineup beginning Feb. 28 to add more life & culture programming

The weekday schedule does not change. There is some coverage overlap, including in the Denver area, between KUNC and Colorado Public Radio (KCFR, etc.).

Last September, KUNC, which also operates AAA KJAC "The Colorado Sound", laid off a quarter of its staff as a consequence of losing CPB funding.

(Small disclaimer: I contribute to both KUNC and CPR.)

(H/T to Corey Hutchins at Colorado College and his Inside the News in Colorado newsletter, who caught this.)
 
"Life and culture programming." I wonder what that will be? Perhaps music shows, devoted to Adult Alternative, Jazz, Americana and other genres? I guess that will be less expensive than running the usual public radio weekend shows, "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me," "Splendid Table," "Hidden Brain," "It's Been A Minute," etc.

The spin doesn't add up though. Public radio stations affiliated with NPR hardly run any news shows on weekends, other than the weekend versions of All Things Considered (1 hr.) and Weekend Edition (2 hrs.)
 
Gregg. said:
"Life and culture programming." I wonder what that will be? Perhaps music shows, devoted to Adult Alternative, Jazz, Americana and other genres? I guess that will be less expensive than running the usual public radio weekend shows, "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me," "Splendid Table," "Hidden Brain," "It's Been A Minute," etc.

The spin doesn't add up though. Public radio stations affiliated with NPR hardly run any news shows on weekends, other than the weekend versions of All Things Considered (1 hr.) and Weekend Edition (2 hrs.)
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The KUNC article to which I linked describes many of the schedule changes.
 


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