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Saturday, September 25, 2004
THE PROJO STRIKES
AGAIN. The Providence Journal's David McPherson has
another exclusive today on the
mess at WBUR Radio (90.9
FM). McPherson got a look at the records that WBUR has to file with
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and found that 'BUR ran up a
deficit of $4.7 million between fiscal years 1999 and
2003.
Combined with the $9.4 million
deficit over the same period by the 'BUR-owned WRNI Radio (AM 1290),
in Providence, that's a total of $14.1 million. The Boston
University-owned WBUR is planning to sell WRNI and a sister station,
although Rhode Island attorney general Patrick Lynch and community
activists want the sale put on hold.
There's also a useful disclosure in
McPherson's piece: "The Providence Journal Charitable Foundation has
been a major supporter of the WRNI Foundation, contributing $300,000
from 2000 to 2002."
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As Deepthroat said during Watergate, "follow the money." Dan. Keep on it Dan! Thanks.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
