[nfbwatlk] FW: ERRS continues.

[Prows, Bennett (HHS/OCR)]

I received the following regarding the Evergreen Radio Reading Service.  Let it be said, that I am very sorry about the loss of the broadcasters, John Pai, and Gregg Porter at the end of the month.

Of course, I'm also sorry I won't be able to meet and interview some pretty cool, and important people either.  I hope funds can be raised, found or otherwise obtained to keep at least an internet presence.  The many volunteers are to be thanked profusely for their continued support of WTBBL in its entirety.


/s/

Bennett Prows
From: Pai, John [mailto:john.pai at sos.wa.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 3:02 AM
Subject: ERRS continues.


Hey Folks,

As it stands right now ERRS will be continuing in a diminished form after the first of the year. The library plans to air a service primarily over the internet and comprised of material gathered from other radio reading services with the only local programs being:


Eastern Bargains

Grocery Cart

Literary News

Seattle Times

Shopping News

TV Times



Other programs that will be continued with repeats of material from a collection of several years include:



Animals & The Environment

Just for Laughs

Not for Sleuths

Publications NW

Science Fiction Hour

Washington Discovery

Way It Was

Western Hour

It will utilize 10 volunteers, a lead volunteer, and a librarian to be the point person. Both broadcasters positions will be eliminated and the service will lose a large percentage of the volunteers.

WTBBL will be re-evaluating the broadcast on the FM-SCA bandwidth. We are currently looking in to reducing the costs of broadcasting with KUOW, KPBX and KFAE. We are also investigating how we can eliminate the data lines. If we are successful, we can save about $22,000.00 of cost and would be still able to air over the FM SCA bandwidth.

WTBBL will also be re-evaluating content in the next several months as well.

Contact the broadcasters for further information.

The new program schedule will go into test mode the final two weeks of December. All live news readings will end on December 17th.

The last week that radio volunteers need to record material would be December 12th - 17th.

Thanks for your help and patience during this difficult time.

John D Pai
Lead Broadcaster
Evergreen Radio Reading Service
2021 9th Ave., Seattle 98121
john.pai at sos.wa.gov; 206 615-0422