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Programming Committee Minutes

Programming Committee Minutes
February 5, 2008

Present:  Ananda Timpane, Nick Ring, Dan White, Frank Tolopko, Deborah Alecson
Minutes taken by Deborah

1.  House-keeping

Minutes 1/22/08: Accepted with changes to be made
Agenda:  Accepted
Tasks:

q   Simons Rock Middle East Forum:  Nick will resend email to Larry.
q   New Listener Comment Line Mailbox password to Judy:  No update.
q   On Air List Categories Clarification Email:  Will be done this week.
q   Deborah contact Scott re: TomҒs Techno Hour:  Phone message left.  No reply.
q   KAIF MN Evaluation form:  Not done.
q   Contact New Applicants:  Partially done.
q   Contact Programmers w/Missing Reaps:  Partially done.

2.  Programs/Programmers

  Toms Techno Hour:  Todd took out of automation.  Ananda will contact Tom and Scott (day captain).
쒼  Democracy Now!:  Ongoing problems.  Nick informs us that DN has a new server.  We agree to make a formal request to tech committee to change script to later.  Ananda will announce a weeks worth of apologies.
Ҽ  Robbie Zucker:  No longer doing show on Monday.  Ananda will contact Todd.

3.  Peer Review/Self-Evaluation:  Waiting on KFAI evaluation form.  Nick asks that we keep aware of the goal of the review process in order to help us in formatting.

4.  Review Guest Cheat Sheet Draft:  Deborah did not get to it yet.

4.5 Mail:  Ananda will send out reminder to programmers re: folders.  Mail delivered is station property.  Frank delivers and distributes mail.

5.  Music Director Job Description:  committee reviewed email from Dan dated 1/20/08 re: responsibilities of music director.  Discussion ensued about automation and giving Dan, as music director, the responsibility to choose the music.  Dan will again review list of responsibilities and committee will review this again in one month.

6.  Reapplication Update:  Committee looked over the sheets that Ananda had prepared re: the on air schedule as it now exists.

7.  New Applications:  Ananda had made copies of 5 new applications.  We had enough time to review and plug in Luci Leonards proposed show for the 11-12 Thursday slot.

NEXT PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE MEETING:  February 19, 2008, 7 P.M.,
FriendҒs Meeting House.

→ Posted by LauraD on 02/05/2008 at 07:07 PM. Filed under "minutes".