When last we left the KUSP-FM in Santa Cruz drama, the struggling public radio station had not succeeded in meeting its fund raising goal: $300k in around a month. And so the signal has laid off most of its staff save its Operations Director, now the General Manager. It has replaced its daily live deejay […]
Beleaguered public/community radio station KUSP-FM of Santa Cruz, California has concluded its “Mayday” fund drive. Unfortunately the operation only raised around a third of the money it needs to keep going over the coming six months. Here’s the bottom line from KUSP’s latest blog post: “We cannot afford our regular broadcast and still tend to the financial obligations that are […]
There’s all kinds of pain across Twitter-land over the latest rock radio deejay massacre. SFGate reports that legendary San Francisco free form commercial outlet KFOG-FM, owned by Cumulus Radio, has laid off four of its six full time deejays; that plus Rosalie of the beloved Acoustic Sunrise and Acoustic Sunset Sunday shows. “There were a […]
