I believe the only thing that will stop this is if everyone who has donated to KUOW calls KUOW and asks for their money back. They won't return it, and they don't have to, but it would make for an effective indicator about what KUOW donors think about their money being used to put another news station out of business.

You'd think the libertarian, Ayn Rand-types would be up in arms over this: A successful private enterprise now must sell to the not-as-popular state-run entity.

But they're not. Because capitalism isn't about providing value. It's about profit, and that's it.

I imagine someone is already drafting a lawsuit against PLU, seeing as how a lot of the infrastructure that KUOW would be acquiring as part of the purchase, particularly the new transmitter towers, was paid for through capital campaigns and not from funds controlled by the University.

Video of the meeting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNI9hP-O…

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@1: Sustaining members could ask that their monthly payments be cut in half or greater, as clearly KUOW has plenty of money.

PLU is a private institution, and in the end, they don't have to listen to the public, no mater how stupid their decision is.

But KUOW is owned by the public. Maybe we should pass a law that exempts KPLU current workforce from civil service requirements, requires the UW to keep the funds for the stations separate, and keeps current KPLU's management subject to an over site board made up of the current advisory board with vacancies to be filled by the governor. They would be chartered to run KPLU in the best interest of the South and Western sound, Western Washington, and them the state of Washington and the greater Pacific Northwest.

Problem solved, and we get the best of both worlds. Best if all, it dies what Public Radio does, serves the public interest.

@3:

You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.