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11/9/10 KPFA replaces Morning Show & Brian ET with KPFT show

by Hurrah!
At 6:30 p.m. on Monday, November 8, 2010, the whining supporters of the Concerned Listeners/Save KPFA reactionaries announced the best news we the listeners have heard on that Democratic Party promotional "newscast" in many years: The entire Morning Show and Brian Edwards Tiekert are being replaced by a Los Angeles KPFT program effective 11/9/10. For the first time in many years, we might have something better to listen to in the morning. Let's give it a try on 11/9/10.
It just shows, if you live long enough, something good will happen. There are sure to be more layoffs since the one thing that governs all else is lacking at KPFA: M-O-N-E-Y.

GOOD RIDDANCE TO THE ENTIRE MORNING SHOW AND BRIAN EDWARDS-TIEKERT

Here are the 2 most important sentences from an excellent analysis of the financial crisis at KPFA, perpetrated by the Concerned Listeners/Save KPFA Gang as they were the majority when $1 million disappeared, including the entire reserve:

From:
From: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/11/05/18663259.php
and
http://www.voteindyradio.org/node/24
"The station must reduce its staff headcount for one sad but simple reason: there is no money to continue paying all current employees, there are no reserves to cover the shortfall, and there's no possibility of making it up by cutting other expenses. As of Sept. 1, 2010, our station had the largest payroll and the largest deficit in the Pacifica network."

And below are all of the supporters of this till-tapping gang who should be removed immediately and replaced with volunteer community programming, and please reduce the evening news to a half hour and move Democracy Now to 7 a.m. with no repeats.

Here are the staff supporters:
C.S. Soong, Co-host, “Against the Grain”
Mitch Jeserich, “Letters to Washington,” Producer & Host
Brian Edwards-Tiekert, “Morning Show,” Producer and Host
Mark Mericle, Co-Director, “KPFA News”
Aileen Alfandary, Co-Director, “KPFA News”
Bonnie Simmons, Host, “The Bonnie Simmons Show,” former KPFA LSB, Pacifica National Board
Philip Maldari, “Sunday Show,” Producer & Host
Kris Welch, “Living Room” & “Saturday Morning Talkies,” Producer & Host
Miguel Guerrero, Web Producer & Producer, “Rock and Rebellion”
Jan Etre, Crafts Fair Coordinator
Laura Prives, “Morning Show,” Executive Producer
Sasha Lilley, “Against the Grain,” Producer & Host
Max Pringle, News Reporter
John Hamilton, News Producer & Anchor
Rose Ketabchi, “Free Speech Radio News,” Technical Producer, KPFA News Co-Anchor
Scott Pham, “Free Speech Radio News,” Technical Producer
Derk Richardson, Host of the “Hear and Now”
David Gans, Host of “Dead To The World”
Bob Baldock, KPFA Events Coordinator
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