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New CEO at NPR

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TheBigA

Just in time for the latest crisis. This is from AllAccess. Read the rest of the article there:

http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/97151/npr-taps-gary-e-knell-as-pres-ceo

SESAME WORKSHOP President and CEO GARY E. KNELL has been named President and CEO of NPR, the network announced SUNDAY. KNELL will join NPR on DECEMBER 1st; he joined SESAME WORKSHOP in 1998 and became COO in 1998 and CEO in 2000. Previously, KNELL was Managing Director of MANAGER MEDIA INTERNATOONAL and SVP/General Counsel of PBS affiliate WNET (TV)/NEWARK-NEW YORK, and presently serves on the Council on Foreign Relations and the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. He replaces VIVIAN SCHILLER, who exited in MARCH after controversies over the firing of commentator JUAN WILLIAMS and comments by a fundraiser criticizing conervatives and the Tea Party.



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TheBigA said:
Just in time for the latest crisis. This is from AllAccess. Read the rest of the article there:

SESAME WORKSHOP President and CEO GARY E. KNELL has been named President and CEO of NPR, the network announced SUNDAY. KNELL will join NPR on DECEMBER 1st; he joined SESAME WORKSHOP in 1998 and became COO in 1998 and CEO in 2000. Previously, KNELL was Managing Director of MANAGER MEDIA INTERNATOONAL and SVP/General Counsel of PBS affiliate WNET (TV)/NEWARK-NEW YORK, and presently serves on the Council on Foreign Relations and the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. He replaces VIVIAN SCHILLER, who exited in MARCH after controversies over the firing of commentator JUAN WILLIAMS and comments by a fundraiser criticizing conervatives and the Tea Party.
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And the highbrows who want public radio to be nothing but classical music will greet him as warmly as former CTW/Sesame Workshop exec Laura Walker was greeted when she became GM at WNYC (although she's had the last laugh on all of them, considering her station's successes).
 
As I said someplace else, at least with classical music, you don't offend Congress. I find it interesting that one of the most popular stations on Capitol Hill is WETA, the NPR classical station. A lot of those legislators prefer Mozart to soft rock.

CTW is a very very successful operation. The one thing they've done that NPR hasn't is bridge the gap between profit and non-profit in creative ways.
 
Mark Jeffries said:
And the highbrows who want public radio to be nothing but classical music will greet him as warmly as former CTW/Sesame Workshop exec Laura Walker was greeted when she became GM at WNYC (although she's had the last laugh on all of them, considering her station's successes).
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NPR has not been in the classical music business for several years now. The last NPR-produced classical program was "Performance Today," which moved over to Minnesota-based American Public Media way back in 2007.

The (largely mythical) "highbrows" of whom you speak have probably figured out by now that if they want classical music in the public radio system, it will come from production entities other than NPR, which focuses only on news and spoken-word programming these days.
 
Scott Fybush said:
NPR has not been in the classical music business for several years now. The last NPR-produced classical program was "Performance Today," which moved over to Minnesota-based American Public Media way back in 2007.

The (largely mythical) "highbrows" of whom you speak have probably figured out by now that if they want classical music in the public radio system, it will come from production entities other than NPR, which focuses only on news and spoken-word programming these days.
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Agreed--but they sure complained about Steve Post being taken off of mornings. And the simulcasting after 9/11. And "Satellite Sisters." (Well, they were right about that.) And Jonathan Schwartz replacing the Saturday opera. And moving QXR to 106.7. Even refocusing the nighttime classical programming on NYC-FM to contemporary classical music got complaints. And with derogatory references to "Sesame Street"'s music being "Broadway" (never mind that most of the biggies in classical music have appeared on the program, and in the highbrows' only other approved genre, Buffy Sainte-Marie was a regular and Joan Ganz Cooney's married to a folk singer who's been on the show, for God's sake!).

And besides, these people love complaining on station web sites and blogs. :)
 
Everything you're talking about is WNYC. That's not the organization Gary Knell was just hired to lead.
 
Scott Fybush said:
Everything you're talking about is WNYC. That's not the organization Gary Knell was just hired to lead.
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Yeah, but they'll find something to complain. Just look at the individual stories' comments sections on NPR's site any time after a piece on pop culture, new tech or sports is posted. And they're always the first to post.
 
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