Colleagues Helping Colleagues Fund

This is a repost of a repost. 
I saw this on PRADO today. It originally went out on a DEI email.


Friends, this is for those of you who did not already receive this through the DEI e-mail list.  Many many thanks to PRADO for allowing us to re-post this here!

Dear Public Media Colleagues,

I'm writing today to ask for your help.

In the last several weeks, the Colleagues Helping Colleagues Fund has been able to make a real difference in the lives of public media employees who suffered severe property damage in the wake of Hurricane Irene.  Thanks to the generosity of many past and current donors to the CHC Fund, we were able to act immediately to get funding to those who needed it. 

But now, the Fund's reserves are nearly exhausted.

We hope you will consider making a donation to the Colleagues Helping Colleagues Fund today.  With your help we can continue to provide immediate assistance to public media professionals who are struggling with the gap between insurance coverage and the real costs of rebuilding their homes and lives.  Your donation is 100% tax-deductible, and every penny we receive goes to your colleagues in need.

You can contribute online at http://dei.cloudfour.com/node/3830, or send a check to:

DEI/CHC Fund
401 N. 3rd St.Suite 370
Minneapolis, MN 55401

The most urgent expenses after any natural disaster are temporary housing, insurance premiums, and clean-up costs.  Here are some of the stories we've recently received from your public media colleagues in the last several weeks:
  "[Our insurance claim] included the cost of pumping out the basement, disinfection, renting a fan, repairing the furnace, re-pointing the foundation where it was blown out by the flood water pressure, replacement of the garage door and other items. As you may know, a number of things do not get covered, such as removal of silt outside the home, removal of logs and river debris, and driveway washout. This is in addition to the $1,000 deductible..."

  "I have just had my home flooded (with approx. 9 feet of water due to the recent flooding in the region). I have been busy trying to clean up -- it is amazing how much damage water can do... My first concern is getting the electrical box fixed and a hot water heater and furnace so we can shower and have heat..."

  "When there is flooding, it's hard to imagine how much time, money, physical energy and emotional energy need to rise to the surface to get life back to normal. Thanks to the Colleagues Helping Colleagues Fund, we are so much better situated to move ahead. I am so proud to be a member of the public radio community and so grateful to this fund for helping us out."
Please, if you are able, make a donation today at http://dei.cloudfour.com/node/3830 so that we can help more of your colleagues right now... and so that we have funds on-hand to provide immediate help the next time disaster strikes.  If you'd like more information about the Fund, you can read more here:  http://www.deiworksite.org/colleagues-helping-colleagues. 

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Doug Eichten
President
DEI

P.S.  Your donation in any amount makes a genuine difference.  Thank you so much for your generous support!

IS HD Radio Fading Out?

Deep within the post from Inside Tuscon Business.com is a paragraph about the diminishing choices on HD Radio.  David Hatfield writes, "The smooth jazz music on the Mountain's KWMT 92.9-2 HD channel still wasn't functioning this week. It has now been nearly a month that it has been off the air.

Among Tucson radio broadcasters, only Clear Channel and Arizona Public Media are continuing to offer multiple broadcasts using the digital technology that's been branded as HD radio.

In the case of Clear Channel, it's down to just the additional broadcast of Spanish language pop music station Mia on KRQ 93.7-2 in addition to its main channel KTZR 97.1-FM.

I guess I might as well face facts: HD radio is in its last throws. Too bad. It seemed like a good idea."

Perhaps the reason why is the paragraph below about the new apps being offered by Clear Channel. Has mobile media led to the demise of HD Radio? Another big reason is the poor penetration in the marketplace of HD sets at home and in the car.

Do you have insights into why HD just isn't catching on?

WDUQ Rebound

The AQH share for WDUQ went up slightly in August to 1.5%.
Tune in six months from now to see the trend. That will show something significant and more reliable.
There's more news in the Post-Gazette.com

Pittsburgh Share

June       1.6%
July        1.4%
August   1.5%

CNC Going Dark

In the end, the struggle for funding proved too much for the Capitol News Connection. The service closes its doors at the end of the month.
We found its content to be very valuable for our listeners when I was working for WNPR. It was a reliable source for imformation about what was happening on Capitol Hill and in Washington.

http://www.capitolnewsconnection.org/news/end-news-era-cnc-2003-2011

Hawk n Dove Will Close in DC/NPR

Often what we talk about on the Real Life Survival Guide is the loss of local, family businesses. What replaces them is the paint by the numbers chain establishments. It's a theme that has come up more than once. In fact we talked about it again at today's recording session at Manjares in the Westville section of New Haven. The local establishments help give us a sense of place... a sense of community. I don't think we get that same sense from the national chains. I felt that loss when one of my favorite spots in Milwaukee closed down. Kalt's had been open for about 140 years when it closed. It's a place I kept going back to because of a sense of connection.  I still miss it.
Audie Cornish reports for NPR

Popular D.C. Bar To Close Doors | Minnesota Public Radio News

Lightening Takes IPR Off Air

Indiana Public Radio took a hit yesterday from lightening. Those were probably the same storms that delayed the Notre Dame football games several hours.
When I worked there in the late 80's at WBST a fire in the drama department took us off the air for a couple of weeks.