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Pam Coulter

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Nice to hear Pam Coulter, late of ABC News Radio as a reporter and correspondent, doing some newscasts for NPR this afternoon.

They've been utilizing a lot of freelancers on the weekends since their newscasts were reshuffled about two months ago, with much of the weekend staff (Craig Windham, Lakshmi Singh, and Korva Coleman) moving to weekdays.

Its amazing how familiar her voice is, but how different her delivery is on an NPR newscast vs. an ABC I-net newscast. Still sounds great.
 
Another alum of ABC Radio was doing the top of the hour news on NPR last week. I think it was Daria Albinger, but I didn't write her name down in time. When I heard both of these names show up on NPR so close to each other, I assumed they came over from ABC at the same time.
 
Might have been someone else formerly with ABC. Daria Albinger was filling in on the ABC/E morning drive newscasts last week and she had a couple of stories on the ABC affiliates website this morning.
 
Sorry to bring up this old topic, but I heard the former ABC newscaster on NPR today I was talking about when I wrote back in August. It was Louise Schiavone, not Daria Albinger.
 
Were these talented people shed by Citadel / ABC, or did they leave on their own? In either case, yet another time when journalists in the private sector move into government-funded jobs. Here in New Mexico, ex-governor (thankfully) Bill Richardson hired up a bunch of the best on-air news people in the state, paid them much more than they were making in the private sector, and had them become "spokespersons" for a myriad of state white-collar welfare departments. Has that happened in anyone else's state or city?
 
ABQRadio, what you shared is not a positive development. Where does the government get the money to pay them so highly?
The answer is you and me, the taxpayer. Then, although this may not be at the top of their reason-list, the effect can be to give government more power over the lives of the citizens. The former governor is paying some of your top newspersons to produce propoganda for the government. In the worst case scenario, the taxpayer is paying for the government to take control. In the wrong hands, this could develop into something dangerous.
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
Sorry to bring up this old topic, but I heard the former ABC newscaster on NPR today I was talking about when I wrote back in August. It was Louise Schiavone, not Daria Albinger.
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She gets around. She used to report on Lou Dobbs' show on CNN, too.
 
Government agencies hiring media people as spokespersons, en masse, is hardly unique to Albuquerque.

Here in Northeast Ohio, a whole bunch of former local radio and TV people are in the cabinet of Akron mayor Don Plusquellic, including two former WAKC/23 staffers (news director/anchor Mark Williamson and "23 Nite Videos" host Billy Soule) and a former newsman for WHLO/640 (chief of staff Dave Lieberth).

In Columbus, state government is filled with ex-media types in spokesperson roles.

As far as Pam Coulter goes, I'm still mourning the loss of her former ABC News Radio colleague Mary Margaret Myers last fall. And what a voice she had...whew.

I knew one station where they recorded a local version of her outro into the afternoon show, and the male co-host used to take an extra second or two to recover. :D
 
ABQRADIO said:
Were these talented people shed by Citadel / ABC, or did they leave on their own?
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Last I checked, ABC News is still managed by Disney/ABC, but distributed by Citadel (similar to CBS Radio News being distributed by WW1, yet is still managed by CBS). I presume that it was Disney/ABC that let them go.
 
Nathan is indeed correct.

Citadel has a 10 year deal to handle distribution for ABC News Radio, which is still produced by Disney's ABC News unit.
 
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