Feulner's gone
Public radio KPCW general manager and Park City radio icon Blair Feulner is history. The board that controls the National Public Radio affiliate released this statement:Following some questionable financial decisions involving KPCW's sibling KCPW in Salt Lake City, Community Wireless was forced to sell the Salt Lake frequencies. The Salt Lake station's troubles were complicated when the Tribune revealed that Feulner was earning a six-figure salary (plus a $895,000 one-time payment in 2004) for managing the operation.The Board of Trustees of Community Wireless of Park City confirms that Blair Feulner resigned from the organization on July 15. Given his resignation, board members are not currently involved in negotiations regarding a sabbatical or other form of ongoing employment.
The board reportedly had cut Feulner's salary and was unreceptive to his demand for regular sabbatical leaves.
Feulner's attorney had been in negotiations with a legal representative of the board through Tuesday. Board member Joe Wrona told the Trib's Paul Beebe that Feulner will receive no severance package:
It's fair to say that the board realizes this was an inevitable and a necessary part of the evolution of Community Wireless and KPCW.
7 Comments:
Hope the greedhead didn't let the door hit him in the ass on the way out.
I thought only conservatives were greedy.
Non-profit boards sometimes get incestuous with bringing on friends and business associates. This was cited as a problem for the board in the previous story on KPCW just a day or so ago, citing how uncomfortable his "friends" felt in this situation.
That problem exists in other non-profit boards, as well as bringing on people who simply will not question things. Quite often, managers have too much say in who comes on the board to oversee them and things like this are the result.
Look at community radio KRCL and their board, who have never questioned the pitiful performance of their station management over the years. Poor decision-making at KRCL with regard to financial matters has led to wholesale changes at KRCL, forever changing the dynamic community station. It didn't need to happen. Strong oversight and better decisions could have prevented the financial problems the station management helped create. But the board never questioned management the way it should have and managers who hate being questioned about their decisions don't make it easy. But it's more important that inefficient mangers keep their jobs, rather than the board do theirs. Plus, a nationwide search for a manager by a part-time volunteer board is not only laborious, but some might feel a change in management gives a perception of less stability at the station.
Does anyone really give a rats behind about stuffy community/NPR radio anymore these days?
It struggles becuase its crap.
Good God Glen, you have wasted a lot of your time on this story. How much do you like this crap?
KCPW is newsworthy to the wine-and-cheese crowd the lives east of State Street and north of 2100 South.
The rest of the state couldn't give a rat's ass about this.
It is about time someone woke up in regards to Blair. Never has someone made more from a "non-profit." The liberal lemmings in PC have idolized the guy and he has been ripping them off for years. Kudos to the new management at KPCW.
Good riddance! I bet he's crying all the way to the bank...
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