Pacifica management lays off entire staff of KPFA's Morning Show

[deutsey]

http://kpfaworker.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/breaking-pacifica-management-lays-off-entire-staff-of-morning-show/

PROTEST CALLED: Tuesday, November 9th at 11am in front of KPFA Radio, 1929 Martin Luther King Jr Way in Berkeley (cross street University Avenue).

The Executive Director of Pacifica Radio today dismissed the entire staff of the KPFA Morning Show–Aimee Allison, Brian Edwards-Tiekert, Laura Prives, and Esther Manilla–and ordered tomorrow’s program to be taken off the air, according to the KPFA News.

The move by Arlene Engelhardt casts into doubt the future of KPFA’s most popular locally produced program—as well as the station’s single biggest source of fund raising revenue.

Morning Show producer Esther Manilla is a shop steward with the KPFA staff union, CWA Local 9415. She says the staff of the KPFA Morning Show was told by KPFA’s interim general manager that their program tomorrow would be replaced by syndicated content from Pacifica station KPFK.

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[deutsey]

1. You can listen to the archived Morning Show at this link:

http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/65233

[mackerel]

2. Did they state the reason why?