WNYC layoffs

[Joylovepulse967]

New York Public Radio lays off 14 staffers, including newsroom leaders

"We cannot achieve our goals and meet our commitments while shouldering a fourth year of losses,” said CEO Goli Sheikholeslami.

current.org

 

[CTListener]

NYPR’s financial losses were due in part to a 27% decline in sponsorship revenue during the pandemic. “We knew sponsorship revenue would take a hit, but we planned for the advertising market to begin rebounding in the second half of this fiscal year,” Sheikholeslami wrote. “That didn’t happen ..."

Advertising? NYPR accepts advertising? I thought public radio was funded through listener donations, sponsorships and grants/federal aid.

 

[TheBigA]

Advertising? NYPR accepts advertising? I thought public radio was funded through listener donations, sponsorships and grants/federal aid.

Sponsorships come from the "advertising market." The law dictates how they're presented on the air, not where they come from.

This story is much ado about nothing. Public radio stations around the country have been laying off staff for the same reason all year. WBUR in Boston laid off a similar number of people last fall. Minnesota Public Radio laid off a bunch and canceled several shows including the nationally syndicated "Live From Here" show, the successor to Prairie Home Companion. It's all related to the pandemic. It's not unusual for laid off employees to be offered their jobs back once the financial situation improves.

WBUR Will Lay Off More Than 10% Of Staff And Drop A National Program

The announced cuts come less than a week after the station, whose broadcast license is owned by Boston University, reached its first, tentative collective bargaining agreement with a union that includes reporters and producers.

www.wbur.org

APM ends 'Live from Here', lays off 28 employees

Minnesota Public Radio and American Public Media on Tuesday announced more than two dozen layoffs and the cancellation of a national program.

www.mprnews.org

 

[Joylovepulse967]

Sponsorships come from the "advertising market." The law dictates how they're presented on the air, not where they come from.

This story is much ado about nothing. Public radio stations around the country have been laying off staff for the same reason all year. WBUR in Boston laid off a similar number of people last fall. Minnesota Public Radio laid off a bunch and canceled several shows including the nationally syndicated "Live From Here" show, the successor to Prairie Home Companion. It's all related to the pandemic. It's not unusual for laid off employees to be offered their jobs back once the financial situation improves.

WBUR Will Lay Off More Than 10% Of Staff And Drop A National Program

The announced cuts come less than a week after the station, whose broadcast license is owned by Boston University, reached its first, tentative collective bargaining agreement with a union that includes reporters and producers.

www.wbur.org

APM ends 'Live from Here', lays off 28 employees

Minnesota Public Radio and American Public Media on Tuesday announced more than two dozen layoffs and the cancellation of a national program.

www.mprnews.org

Really do they job back !? I’m so confused

 

[TheBigA]

Really do they job back !? I’m so confused

Some companies even have a policy that if you're laid off (not fired), you are the first person contacted when an opening occurs.

Why not? Laid off staff already know company procedures. It's an easy hire.

Rehiring Employees After COVID-19 Furloughs and Layoffs

Ideas on how to handle the rehiring process efficiently so you can position your company for loan forgiveness and help your business recover.

www.indeed.com

 

[Joylovepulse967]

Some companies even have a policy that if you're laid off (not fired), you are the first person contacted when an opening occurs.

Why not? Laid off staff already know company procedures. It's an easy hire.

Rehiring Employees After COVID-19 Furloughs and Layoffs

Ideas on how to handle the rehiring process efficiently so you can position your company for loan forgiveness and help your business recover.

www.indeed.com

So return to old job?????

 

[kevtronics]

Minnesota Public Radio laid off a bunch and canceled several shows including the nationally syndicated "Live From Here" show, the successor to Prairie Home Companion. It's all related to the pandemic.

I'm sure ratings were sliding long before the show ended due to the pandemic. After Garrison Keillor had already retired, he got MeToo'ed, and MPR scrambled to remove all traces of him from the show, changed its name, laid off its crew of radio actors, and ended all of the comedy sketches that were the show's main attraction, leaving it as just a milquetoast live music show with no recognizable identity.

 

[Marcos_C]

I'm sure ratings were sliding long before the show ended due to the pandemic. After Garrison Keillor had already retired, he got MeToo'ed, and MPR scrambled to remove all traces of him from the show, changed its name, laid off its crew of radio actors, and ended all of the comedy sketches that were the show's main attraction, leaving it as just a milquetoast live music show with no recognizable identity.

I listened to A Prairie Home Companion when I was younger. One thing I liked about the show is that it was an escape to another place. The same could not be said about its successor. I listened to one episode of the later show, and, let's just say it wasn't the same.

 

[BarryATL]

I listened to A Prairie Home Companion when I was younger. One thing I liked about the show is that it was an escape to another place. The same could not be said about its successor. I listened to one episode of the later show, and, let's just say it wasn't the same.

That is the best description of A Prairie Home Companion that I have heard. It was an escape to another place.

 

[Marcos_C]

We can only wish that Lake Wobegon were a real place.

 

[BJSteigner]

NYPR’s financial losses were due in part to a 27% decline in sponsorship revenue during the pandemic. “We knew sponsorship revenue would take a hit, but we planned for the advertising market to begin rebounding in the second half of this fiscal year,” Sheikholeslami wrote. “That didn’t happen ..."

Advertising? NYPR accepts advertising? I thought public radio was funded through listener donations, sponsorships and grants/federal aid.

I believe that the federal funding is "1/16" of the federal budget. I think the federal money will keep rolling in.

 

[TheBigA]

I believe that the federal funding is "1/16" of the federal budget. I think the federal money will keep rolling in.

I think you're right, although every year, there's a small group who want to cut it off. But they always get outvoted.

Here's the latest attempt:

Cosponsors - H.R.3410 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): To prohibit Federal funding of National Public Radio and the use of Federal funds to acquire radio content.

Cosponsors of H.R.3410 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): To prohibit Federal funding of National Public Radio and the use of Federal funds to acquire radio content.

www.congress.gov

Notice that it's strictly aimed at NPR. The fact is that Congress doesn't fund NPR. It funds local public radio stations. So this bill is DOA.