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Programming Minutes - October 7, 2008

Programmming Committee

October 7, 2008

Minutes

Members present: Deborah Alecson, Luci Leonard, Nick Ring, Judy Rosley, Ananda Timpane, Dan White

Guests: Harold Schrager

Minutes 9/16/08

Motion: Accept minutes as amended.  Accepted unanimously.

Programs/Programmers

Earth Radio: While no points have been awarded, Earth Radio programmers should not announce CET-related events on their own program. 

10/5/08: Lights on, Alarm error.  Orlando was last programmer in on 10/4/08 and said he had activated the alarm.  Motion:  Award Orlando 1 point for leaving the lights on pending opportunity for response at next Programming Committee meeting and request that his day captain review activating the alarm with him.  Approved unanimously.

DN! en Espaol:  Hour-long version will air MTThF at 11pm.  request that the tech committee script the automatic download and playback and report back for next programming committee meeting.

AM Show: Bob Balogh willing to work with Ananda on overseeing revitalization of AM Show.  Currently Bob, Andy Shaw, and Tim Schafer do AM show slots, but most slots are still open.

Curiouser and Curiouser: Alice is returning to India shortly.  Curiouser and Curiouser will be removed from the Oct-Jan schedule.

Program Producer Guide Review

Dan has added his changes.  Nick is in process.  Next the guide review goes to Judy, Luci, Ben, and Ananda. Additional items that need to go in: absentee policy, anonymity policy, commercial speech policy, and more.  Appendices need to be integrated.  Consideration of reorganizing content for a clearer structure.

Fund Drive

Request from the fundraising committee to use the airwaves for a fund drive Oct. 11-17.  approved unanimously.

Request from the fundraising committee to preempt all syndicated shows to do fundraising.  Motion: PC send out a reminder that programmers dedicate half of their show to the fund drive (including pre-recorded & syndicated programming).  Approved unanimously.  PC will provide FC with contact information for syndicated and pre-recorded programs.  Motion: Up to 20 minutes for FSRN and up to 40 minutes of DN! can be pre-empted by the fundraising committee of any given day for fundraising.  Approved unanimously.

FY09 Budget Request

Dan to send revised, itemized list to committee to finalize by October 15th Board Meeting.

Tasks

DA to contact Phil Johnson regarding revised Guest On Air Orientation Sheet

DW to send out subject line tag reminder to on-air listserve

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