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from a list I am on:
http://www.wjffradio.org/wjff/index.php?section=96
Competitive salary range, experienced based. Submit cover letter and resume by 5/30 to:
[email protected]
Radio Catskill WJFF is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Will leave pinned until June.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)WJFF manager resigns amid controversy
A public spat over the management of WJFF, a community public radio station broadcasting at 90.5 FM from Jeffersonville, came to a head Wednesday night when station manager Winston Clark resigned at a station board meeting.
In March, the Times Herald-Record reported, a simmering dispute over programming between the station's board of directors and a large group of volunteers erupted in outright conflict after a popular program was abruptly pulled off the air.
At a WJFF board meeting last month, several dozen volunteers crowded into the station to demand change in the station's management:
The target of much of the anger wasn't just the all-volunteer board, but station manager Winston Clark.
One example, said Barbara Gref and others, is that the station hasn't had a full meeting of a Community Advisory Board for years, as mandated by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Instead, moves are made in executive session because they feel "uncomfortable" talking about programs and hosts in public, some of the speakers said.
http://www.watershedpost.com/2013/wjff-manager-resigns-amid-controversy
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http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20130322%2FNEWS%2F303220355
https://www.facebook.com/WJFFRadio/posts/10151522771484827
This is one of the few stations I can get in my town (we're in a valley) and it's always been quite good. I hope this doesn't turn into a war like WBAI had some time ago.
saw the videos a while back on that same list, the Grassroots Radio Coalition. This an all too common experience in community radio - instigated by the CPB originally called the "Healthy Stations Project" - the commercialization and "professionalization" of great small community stations. That process fucked up a lot of stations including the ever on-going problems at Pacifica. This is how I met MFM.
One or two real community radio people in management, like this position could do wonders. Our station made some real strides when the Board accidentally hired a GM with community radio experience. Of course they fired him as soon as they figured out he was really inclusive and was doing some healing with the community. He moved to the little arts town nearby and seems to have settled in with their station quite well.
rug
(82,333 posts)It's a sorely needed voice. There's a few hippie enclaves here and there but it's an uphill fight.
I was picking a jury there a few years ago and one of the jurors said she worked there. That was the first one the DA struck from the panel.