Jon Delfin, to Mark Jeffries, Diner, and Dave Sikula:
>
> The writing was on WNYC's wall when they stopped being the little
> station(s) that could and began to set their sights higher. The first sign
> of that to me was when the pledge drives were turned over to professional
> phone-banks,
The writing was on WNYC's wall when they stopped being the little
station(s) that could and began to set their sights higher. The first sign
of that to me was when the pledge drives were turned over to professional
phone-banks, instead of continuing to have listener/volunteers answer the
phones. I
The NY Times had an article a few days ago which more or less laid blame on
CEO ("general manager" anywhere else--although I've seen "market manager"
nowadays on the iHeart and Cumulus listings) Laura Walker and her faithful
Indian companion "director of content" ("program director") Dean Capello
I have almost 300 unheard segments of Lopate's show in my podcast library.
(BTW, the podcast was renamed at the same time as the series, so now all
those unheard episodes, some dating back to 2012, were instantly relabeled
as "Midday on WNYC" - a neat bit of revisionist history for the
I think that both of them had attitudes from a less-enlightened era, but
were also victims of WNYC overreacting to what sounds like some pretty
minor offenses. Suspension-worthy, yes, but maybe not of termination
quality.
That said, Lopate is one of the worst interviewers I've ever heard,
