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Former ABC Family President Named KCET CEO

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In what could be described as a rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic move, KCET has hired a new CEO to replace Al Jerome.

As far as I know, KCET is still on track to sell its spectrum and channel share come auction and channel repacking time.

As the article notes: "Riley joins KCET at a pivotal time. KCET recently gave up its PBS affiliation in Southern California, which saw both ratings and fundraising slide as it lost its footing in the community."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/abc-family-president-named-kcet-761138
 
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“I am honored to join such a terrific and passionate team,” Riley said.

He obviously hasn't met them yet. This station needs someone to clean house completely and start over. The last crew took one of the top PBS stations in the country and destroyed it. They gave up their PBS membership 4 years ago (not "recently"), and have been on a downhill spiral since then.
 
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Maybe the new KCET management will amends with PBS, and get its membership back. I mean, it's happened fairly recently--WMFE in Orlando dropped its PBS membership in 2011, only to get it back about a year, due to a change in ownership (as the University of Central Florida-owned WUCF-TV).
 
No need to "make amends." PBS takes everybody who pays their membership fee. All KCET has to do is to start paying.

PBS has outlived its usefulness anyway. KCET was on to something when they dropped out but premature. What they should have done is gotten some other major stations to exit with them. PBS produces nothing - zip, nada, zilch. All programming comes from "member stations" or independent producers. PBS adds little or nothing for their hefty subscription fees. Public television needs something like PRX.

And, yet again, the righties are circling - eager for any chance to bash public broadcasting.
 
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No need to "make amends." PBS takes everybody who pays their membership fee. All KCET has to do is to start paying.

PBS has outlived its usefulness anyway. KCET was on to something when they dropped out but premature. What they should have done is gotten some other major stations to exit with them. PBS produces nothing - zip, nada, zilch. All programming comes from "member stations" or independent producers. PBS adds little or nothing for their hefty subscription fees. Public television needs something like PRX.

And, yet again, the righties are circling - eager for any chance to bash public broadcasting.
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The "righties" just bash PBS for being publically funded. The greater bashing is reserved for NPR because of it's supposed "left-wing bias," which in my experience, does not actually exist. KQED in San Francisco is a powerhouse because they run both a local high-power NPR radio station (rated consistently near the top in Arbitron), and the TV station, and also now own the San Jose PBS affiliate.
 
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