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Frank Lanzone

Mon, Mar 3, 2025 7:04 PM

Hi everyone,

Marta McLellan Ross has requested that California Public Radio (CPR) join
the Protect My Public Media coalition that she is forming. Plan is to
launch in early March.

The initiative brings together organizations that serve public media, and
organizations adjacent to the industry that strongly support continued
public media service to local communities.

Please let me know if you have any objections or questions.

For those of you fairly new, I’ve been caretaking CPR, but as I move closer
to retirement, we need to decide if we want to go back to an active
organization, requiring officers, elections etc, or is it time to shutter
the organization and for stations interested in regional representation to
join Western States regional organization?

Even more background, when Western States was created, the plan was for all
western states to drop their organizations and create Western States. While
the other organizations voted in favor, California voted to remain an
independent organization, and thus we’ve been the only regional
organization comprised of 1 state.

Reasons stations voted the merger down included looking at California stats
compared to other regions/States:

of listeners to public radio in California

Combined income of California stations

Share of NPR’s station income that comes from California.

The last nail in that merger coffin was a statement by one of our most
outspoken managers at the time:

        “we hardly agree with each other! What do we have in common

with those people?”

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

Frank

*Frank Lanzone, Jr. *

President ~ General Manager

KCBX Inc.

4100 Vachell Lane San Luis Obispo CA 93401 805-549-8855

Thanks,

Frank

Hi everyone, Marta McLellan Ross has requested that California Public Radio (CPR) join the Protect My Public Media coalition that she is forming. Plan is to launch in early March. The initiative brings together organizations that serve public media, and organizations adjacent to the industry that strongly support continued public media service to local communities. Please let me know if you have any objections or questions. For those of you fairly new, I’ve been caretaking CPR, but as I move closer to retirement, we need to decide if we want to go back to an active organization, requiring officers, elections etc, or is it time to shutter the organization and for stations interested in regional representation to join Western States regional organization? Even more background, when Western States was created, the plan was for all western states to drop their organizations and create Western States. While the other organizations voted in favor, California voted to remain an independent organization, and thus we’ve been the only regional organization comprised of 1 state. Reasons stations voted the merger down included looking at California stats compared to other regions/States: # of listeners to public radio in California Combined income of California stations Share of NPR’s station income that comes from California. The last nail in that merger coffin was a statement by one of our most outspoken managers at the time: “we hardly agree with each other! What do we have in common with those people?” Looking forward to hearing your thoughts. Frank *Frank Lanzone, Jr. * President ~ General Manager KCBX Inc. 4100 Vachell Lane San Luis Obispo CA 93401 805-549-8855 Thanks, Frank

JM

Joe Moore

Tue, Mar 4, 2025 4:26 PM

Thanks Frank for your leadership on this. I think given the current climate, we actually have a LOT in common with "those people." It's a different era. Absent some new source of direct state support for public media, (not holding my breath) consolidation seems to be the most practical and logical path forward.

Joe Moore (he/his)
President and General Manager
KVPR | Valley Public Radio
559-862-2481 | [email protected]mailto:[email protected]

https://www.kvpr.org
2589 Alluvial Ave
Clovis, CA 93611

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From: Frank Lanzone via Cpr [email protected]
Sent: Monday, March 3, 2025 11:04 AM
To: [email protected] [email protected]
Subject: [Cpr] My Public Media Coalition

Hi everyone,

Marta McLellan Ross has requested that California Public Radio (CPR) join the Protect My Public Media coalition that she is forming. Plan is to launch in early March.

The initiative brings together organizations that serve public media, and organizations adjacent to the industry that strongly support continued public media service to local communities.

Please let me know if you have any objections or questions.

For those of you fairly new, I’ve been caretaking CPR, but as I move closer to retirement, we need to decide if we want to go back to an active organization, requiring officers, elections etc, or is it time to shutter the organization and for stations interested in regional representation to join Western States regional organization?

Even more background, when Western States was created, the plan was for all western states to drop their organizations and create Western States. While the other organizations voted in favor, California voted to remain an independent organization, and thus we’ve been the only regional organization comprised of 1 state.

Reasons stations voted the merger down included looking at California stats compared to other regions/States:

of listeners to public radio in California

Combined income of California stations

Share of NPR’s station income that comes from California.

The last nail in that merger coffin was a statement by one of our most outspoken managers at the time:

        “we hardly agree with each other! What do we have in common with those people?”

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

Frank

Frank Lanzone, Jr.

President ~ General Manager

KCBX Inc.

4100 Vachell Lane San Luis Obispo CA 93401 805-549-8855

Thanks,

Frank

Thanks Frank for your leadership on this. I think given the current climate, we actually have a LOT in common with "those people." It's a different era. Absent some new source of direct state support for public media, (not holding my breath) consolidation seems to be the most practical and logical path forward. Joe Moore (he/his) President and General Manager KVPR | Valley Public Radio 559-862-2481 | [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://www.kvpr.org 2589 Alluvial Ave Clovis, CA 93611 [kvpr-npr-color_med] NPR for Central California KVPR - 89.3 Fresno / 89.1 Bakersfield KVPR Classical - 89.3 HD-2 Fresno / 89.1 HD-2 Bakersfield Central Valley Daily podcast: Apple Podcasts<https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/central-valley-daily/id1766366773> | Spotify<https://open.spotify.com/show/1kVqdHk5HQ8GGV09IwT1tV> Follow us: Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/valleypublicradio> | X<https://twitter.com/kvpr> | Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/kvpr.news> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/1785204> | Threads<https://www.threads.net/@kvpr.news> Support KVPR: Donate at KVPR.org<https://www.kvpr.org/donate> ________________________________ From: Frank Lanzone via Cpr <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 3, 2025 11:04 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [Cpr] My Public Media Coalition Hi everyone, Marta McLellan Ross has requested that California Public Radio (CPR) join the Protect My Public Media coalition that she is forming. Plan is to launch in early March. The initiative brings together organizations that serve public media, and organizations adjacent to the industry that strongly support continued public media service to local communities. Please let me know if you have any objections or questions. For those of you fairly new, I’ve been caretaking CPR, but as I move closer to retirement, we need to decide if we want to go back to an active organization, requiring officers, elections etc, or is it time to shutter the organization and for stations interested in regional representation to join Western States regional organization? Even more background, when Western States was created, the plan was for all western states to drop their organizations and create Western States. While the other organizations voted in favor, California voted to remain an independent organization, and thus we’ve been the only regional organization comprised of 1 state. Reasons stations voted the merger down included looking at California stats compared to other regions/States: # of listeners to public radio in California Combined income of California stations Share of NPR’s station income that comes from California. The last nail in that merger coffin was a statement by one of our most outspoken managers at the time: “we hardly agree with each other! What do we have in common with those people?” Looking forward to hearing your thoughts. Frank Frank Lanzone, Jr. President ~ General Manager KCBX Inc. 4100 Vachell Lane San Luis Obispo CA 93401 805-549-8855 Thanks, Frank

DL

Darren LaShelle

Tue, Mar 4, 2025 5:38 PM

I think it makes sense to rally around the PMPM messaging. California Public Television has been messaging around this initiative and it is effective. There is a lot of support for it as well with messaging, branding, strategy, sample scripts, outreach, etc.

D

Darren LaShelle
President & CEO
Northern California Public Media
[email protected]mailto:[email protected]
707-584-2000
[cid:[email protected]]

From: Joe Moore via Cpr [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2025 8:27 AM
To: [email protected]; Frank Lanzone [email protected]
Subject: [Cpr] Re: My Public Media Coalition

Thanks Frank for your leadership on this. I think given the current climate, we actually have a LOT in common with "those people." It's a different era. Absent some new source of direct state support for public media, (not holding my breath) consolidation seems to be the most practical and logical path forward.

Joe Moore (he/his)
President and General Manager
KVPR | Valley Public Radio
559-862-2481 | [email protected]mailto:[email protected]

https://www.kvpr.org https://www.kvpr.org/
2589 Alluvial Ave
Clovis, CA 93611

[kvpr-npr-color_med]
NPR for Central California
KVPR - 89.3 Fresno / 89.1 Bakersfield
KVPR Classical - 89.3 HD-2 Fresno / 89.1 HD-2 Bakersfield
Central Valley Daily podcast: Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/central-valley-daily/id1766366773 | Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/1kVqdHk5HQ8GGV09IwT1tV
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From: Frank Lanzone via Cpr <[email protected]mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 3, 2025 11:04 AM
To: [email protected]mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [Cpr] My Public Media Coalition

Hi everyone,

Marta McLellan Ross has requested that California Public Radio (CPR) join the Protect My Public Media coalition that she is forming. Plan is to launch in early March.

The initiative brings together organizations that serve public media, and organizations adjacent to the industry that strongly support continued public media service to local communities.

Please let me know if you have any objections or questions.

For those of you fairly new, I've been caretaking CPR, but as I move closer to retirement, we need to decide if we want to go back to an active organization, requiring officers, elections etc, or is it time to shutter the organization and for stations interested in regional representation to join Western States regional organization?

Even more background, when Western States was created, the plan was for all western states to drop their organizations and create Western States. While the other organizations voted in favor, California voted to remain an independent organization, and thus we've been the only regional organization comprised of 1 state.

Reasons stations voted the merger down included looking at California stats compared to other regions/States:

of listeners to public radio in California

Combined income of California stations

Share of NPR's station income that comes from California.

The last nail in that merger coffin was a statement by one of our most outspoken managers at the time:

        "we hardly agree with each other! What do we have in common with those people?"

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

Frank

Frank Lanzone, Jr.

President ~ General Manager

KCBX Inc.

4100 Vachell Lane San Luis Obispo CA 93401 805-549-8855

Thanks,

Frank

I think it makes sense to rally around the PMPM messaging. California Public Television has been messaging around this initiative and it is effective. There is a lot of support for it as well with messaging, branding, strategy, sample scripts, outreach, etc. D Darren LaShelle President & CEO Northern California Public Media [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 707-584-2000 [cid:[email protected]] From: Joe Moore via Cpr <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2025 8:27 AM To: [email protected]; Frank Lanzone <[email protected]> Subject: [Cpr] Re: My Public Media Coalition Thanks Frank for your leadership on this. I think given the current climate, we actually have a LOT in common with "those people." It's a different era. Absent some new source of direct state support for public media, (not holding my breath) consolidation seems to be the most practical and logical path forward. Joe Moore (he/his) President and General Manager KVPR | Valley Public Radio 559-862-2481 | [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://www.kvpr.org<https://www.kvpr.org/> 2589 Alluvial Ave Clovis, CA 93611 [kvpr-npr-color_med] NPR for Central California KVPR - 89.3 Fresno / 89.1 Bakersfield KVPR Classical - 89.3 HD-2 Fresno / 89.1 HD-2 Bakersfield Central Valley Daily podcast: Apple Podcasts<https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/central-valley-daily/id1766366773> | Spotify<https://open.spotify.com/show/1kVqdHk5HQ8GGV09IwT1tV> Follow us: Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/valleypublicradio> | X<https://twitter.com/kvpr> | Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/kvpr.news> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/1785204> | Threads<https://www.threads.net/@kvpr.news> Support KVPR: Donate at KVPR.org<https://www.kvpr.org/donate> ________________________________ From: Frank Lanzone via Cpr <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Monday, March 3, 2025 11:04 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [Cpr] My Public Media Coalition Hi everyone, Marta McLellan Ross has requested that California Public Radio (CPR) join the Protect My Public Media coalition that she is forming. Plan is to launch in early March. The initiative brings together organizations that serve public media, and organizations adjacent to the industry that strongly support continued public media service to local communities. Please let me know if you have any objections or questions. For those of you fairly new, I've been caretaking CPR, but as I move closer to retirement, we need to decide if we want to go back to an active organization, requiring officers, elections etc, or is it time to shutter the organization and for stations interested in regional representation to join Western States regional organization? Even more background, when Western States was created, the plan was for all western states to drop their organizations and create Western States. While the other organizations voted in favor, California voted to remain an independent organization, and thus we've been the only regional organization comprised of 1 state. Reasons stations voted the merger down included looking at California stats compared to other regions/States: # of listeners to public radio in California Combined income of California stations Share of NPR's station income that comes from California. The last nail in that merger coffin was a statement by one of our most outspoken managers at the time: "we hardly agree with each other! What do we have in common with those people?" Looking forward to hearing your thoughts. Frank Frank Lanzone, Jr. President ~ General Manager KCBX Inc. 4100 Vachell Lane San Luis Obispo CA 93401 805-549-8855 Thanks, Frank