Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Hot Goss WRVU General Manager Mikil Taylor Resigns, Long Live the WRVU General Manager
Posted by Steve Haruch on Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:23 PM
I have spoken to current Music Director Victor Clarke, and he has agreed to step up and assume the role of General Manager for the rest of the year. I have supreme confidence in his abilities and temperament, and I know he will make an excellent leader. I highly recommend him as my replacement, and while the VSC board makes the final decision, I am confident that they will agree.
Not sure why Taylor is "confident" the board will agree with him on anything, seeing how they have done what they wanted to do, including upholding their decision on the community DJ cap he refers to in the first place. So what's the takeaway here?
1. The general manager of WRVU, Mikil Taylor, is stepping down.
2. Taylor has named his replacement, Victor Clarke, who, at least according to a LinkedIn page with his name, is an intern in the music department at Comcast Entertainment Group.
3. Some people think it might constitute a conflict of interest to have someone who works at a for-profit broadcast company also working as general manager of a nonprofit radio station.
4. That's a reasonable concern.
5. Then again, if it's an unpaid internship, maybe that's no big deal.
6. In any case, the VSC board meets on Nov. 3 and could confirm Clarke as the new G.M. then.
7. In a follow-up, Taylor says, "I will absolutely continue to be involved in WRVU, and making sure that we can stay on the airwaves in Nashville."
8. I forget what 8 was for.
9. The question remains whether a changing of the guard at WRVU will make any difference in the board's decision to sell or not to sell the broadcast license.
10. Ongoing info at savewrvu.org.
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When are the NPR stations going to be sold? Do they get
special rentals from those whom they lease space from?
Do taxpayers subsidize that rental when station is located
within a publicly funded/owned building?
NeverFear, you're a dumbass. You WISH WPLN was fully "guv'ment" funded so your ideology was actually based in truth and you had SOME patch of real ground to stand on to whine about your stupid argument that actually helps noone. The federal dollars that go to NPR programs (the nationally syndicated ones like the damn news of the day) are only a tiny fraction of what it costs to keep a station running. The rest comes from PEOPLE LIKE ME who think informed reporting helps my city and my country. Go back to your cave and stay off this music blog site. You and your brainwashed ilk are childish fools.
Not to mention the fact that WRVU is not and never has been affiliated with NPR.
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