Comments on: Hoppe brings ‘outward focus’ to new role as PBS’s chief programmer http://www.current.org/2013/01/hoppe-brings-outward-focus-to-new-role-as-pbss-chief-programmer/ For people in public media Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:09:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Gordon Sroufe http://www.current.org/2013/01/hoppe-brings-outward-focus-to-new-role-as-pbss-chief-programmer/#comment-1046 Gordon Sroufe Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:15:00 +0000 http://www.current.org/?p=26968#comment-1046 What Hoppe fails to understand like John WIlson is that PBS is a member organization not a network.

The only way to strengthen programs at 10 is through more forced carriage. That will not sit well with local stations who look to serve local audiences not the strategy with the beltway. It is a lose-lose for stations and PBS.

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