Title: Re: [NewPacifica] No Folios? [ Subject was: Re:
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Now that the National Office/Foundation is getting into
programming, and also sending out fundraising letters to all members
in all stations, perhaps those mailings (fundraising) could include
not only previews of national programming plans, but reviews of recent
programs (hearings, etc.), letters from the new ED, and contact
information for all stations, for letters and communications from the
members to their local stations, either to the LSBs or to the GMs as
the listeners wish.
If Pacifica is to keep to its mission, it really cannot forget
that a great many listeners are NOT on the INternet, do NOT use the
Internet daily to keep up with information about their radio stations,
and still read and write on paper. Many of these listeners are
also those with some discretionary income, hint hint. At WBAI
the curtailment of the Folio disadvantages exactly those listeners who
were its most loyal supporters in the past: no surprise that our
donations are way down. No surprise that some people are not
anxious to reinstate monthly folios to the listeners.
Carolyn
A more extensive
on-line Folio would be good.
Not everyone has
a computer.
In the written
folio in the past there was as a space for letters to the editor and
to programmers.
Having other media
venues around the hegemony (different at all five stations
),
for listener members
to communicate with programers, staff and station board and commitee
members
about what is relavent
to having the radio station is important.
We realize the
limitations of communication by internet on these
listservs.
Written and published
correspondence might be more civil and to the
issues.
--- Jim
Curtis
Re: Terry
Goodman:
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On Sat May 13, 2006, Loraine Mirza wrote:
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>As for no Folios? Seems like our station managers
>haven't gotten on the ball, as they would be the ones
>who would be in charge of fulfilling this very
>important promise that all of us have been waiting for
>since the settlement.
Station production of printed Folios was a fequent demand of some
listener-activists, but it was not a condition of the settlement
agreement. In the early days of Pacifica, a printed program
guide was
an essential membership benefit (and more important than any
"premium"
or gift), as it was the only way that subscribers could plan their
listening. With the adoption of strip programming, the
abandonment of
the thematic programming model, the rollback of original
documentary
production, and the posting of a reasonably accurate monthly
programming chart on the internet, a printed program guide is no
longer necessary.
If programming is radically changed so as to allow a printed guide
to
provide subscribers with significant additional information of
value
not easily accessible over the internet, and if advertising
revenue
can be raised to substantially underwrite the cost of printing and
mailing, then printed Folios could possibly return. Unless and
until
then, a program grid included as an occasional single page
promotional
insert into a local activist publication like Change Links is
probably
all that we can reasonably hope and lobby for.
--Terry
Goodman, KPFK Delegate
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