WAMU going under?

[Anonymous]

How hilarious that WAMU survived the Trump presidency but the wheels came off under Biden. That’s LMAO material.

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Anonymous wrote:I stopped listening long ago when they couldn't ease up on their "angle"

I love WAMU local news coverage, politics hour, etc. but the agenda that the replacements for Kojo and Diane Rehm had was just too much. Everything had to talk about trans or race or social justice. I’m fine with insightful discussions of those topics, even if I disagree with the views discussed - but it was constant and to the exclusion of other interesting topics that used to only be covered (well) by WAMU and then didn’t get covered at all. I was so happy when they restarted dcist but they didn’t pull much of that work through to be on the air.

I agree with you 1000%. I'm a Democrat, I consider myself reasonably liberal, so I'm not someone who's gonna switch over to hate radio (the Rush Limbaugh style crazies). But WAMU "agenda" really started to wear on me. I listen to WTOP to get news. And I can still listen to the NPR shows that I love, like the Daily.

1. Are you getting your “woke” coverages from National NPR played on WAMU or WAMU product? Mt instinct is the former.
2. The Daily is a NYT product, not an NPR one.
2. DCist was axed anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:Again, WAMU is not experiencing "demise." It is not troubled. They are actually hiring.

They are shuttering DCist, which is a significant change and is regulating in nearly 20 staffers being laid off. DCist was never really successful for them financially, and the station itself already requires a lot of funding, so it just did not make sense to continue to run it if it wasn't generating substantive ad revenue, which it wasn't. They may still publish some written content to the WAMU site. But the focus will be on on-air content, as it was before the acquisition of DCist in 2018.

Thanks for chiming in, Erika Pully Hayes.

I'm the PP and don't work for WAMU, I just actually read the article about the situation which explained they are closing DCist but actually adding staff positions at WAMU. Sounds like by getting rid of DCist they are freeing up funding for on-air content.

So no, not in "demise."

This thread is funny though. I had no idea how many angry suburbanites needed an opportunity to explain how much they hate public radio. Hope y'all feel better I guess.

Suburbanites?

Sweetie, my city pre dates your adopted city by a century. Keep wasting your breath trying to be something you aren’t . That might impress your HS classmates in Ass Fart, Ohio, but it just makes us local natives pity you. After we stop laughing at you that is...

Yup. Typical new-arrival-wanna-be-a-local energy. She radiates it.

You 2 kiss your kids with those mouths?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I stopped listening long ago when they couldn't ease up on their "angle"

I love WAMU local news coverage, politics hour, etc. but the agenda that the replacements for Kojo and Diane Rehm had was just too much. Everything had to talk about trans or race or social justice. I’m fine with insightful discussions of those topics, even if I disagree with the views discussed - but it was constant and to the exclusion of other interesting topics that used to only be covered (well) by WAMU and then didn’t get covered at all. I was so happy when they restarted dcist but they didn’t pull much of that work through to be on the air.

I agree with you 1000%. I'm a Democrat, I consider myself reasonably liberal, so I'm not someone who's gonna switch over to hate radio (the Rush Limbaugh style crazies). But WAMU "agenda" really started to wear on me. I listen to WTOP to get news. And I can still listen to the NPR shows that I love, like the Daily.

Imagine just how far to the left WAMU had to be to get run of the mill liberals to complain about their leftist agenda.

That’s just mind blowing.

It IS that bad! It’s not just the agenda itself (parts of which I agree with), it’s the smugness and the single-mindedness. The same story again and again, always from one side. Preaching to the choir. Well, I don’t need to be preached at, I want actual news!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I stopped listening long ago when they couldn't ease up on their "angle"

I love WAMU local news coverage, politics hour, etc. but the agenda that the replacements for Kojo and Diane Rehm had was just too much. Everything had to talk about trans or race or social justice. I’m fine with insightful discussions of those topics, even if I disagree with the views discussed - but it was constant and to the exclusion of other interesting topics that used to only be covered (well) by WAMU and then didn’t get covered at all.

Exactly. “The Takeaway” that replaced Kojo was what did it for me. All about race all the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does this affect Matt the cheerful weatherman?

He’s one of the capital weather gang from Washington Post!

[Anonymous]

WTOP is the only reasonable option now.

Gimme that Neil Auuuuuugensteeeein

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Again, WAMU is not experiencing "demise." It is not troubled. They are actually hiring.

They are shuttering DCist, which is a significant change and is regulating in nearly 20 staffers being laid off. DCist was never really successful for them financially, and the station itself already requires a lot of funding, so it just did not make sense to continue to run it if it wasn't generating substantive ad revenue, which it wasn't. They may still publish some written content to the WAMU site. But the focus will be on on-air content, as it was before the acquisition of DCist in 2018.

Thanks for chiming in, Erika Pully Hayes.

I'm the PP and don't work for WAMU, I just actually read the article about the situation which explained they are closing DCist but actually adding staff positions at WAMU. Sounds like by getting rid of DCist they are freeing up funding for on-air content.

So no, not in "demise."

This thread is funny though. I had no idea how many angry suburbanites needed an opportunity to explain how much they hate public radio. Hope y'all feel better I guess.

Suburbanites?

Sweetie, my city pre dates your adopted city by a century. Keep wasting your breath trying to be something you aren’t . That might impress your HS classmates in Ass Fart, Ohio, but it just makes us local natives pity you. After we stop laughing at you that is...

Yup. Typical new-arrival-wanna-be-a-local energy. She radiates it.

You 2 kiss your kids with those mouths?

Do you touch your kids with the same hands you milked cows with?😆😆😆

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WTOP is the only reasonable option now.

Gimme that Neil Auuuuuugensteeeein

Sadly, I thought I heard a while back that he was moving overseas. Love that dude. Loss for WTOP.

But every time I hear that Michael Pope on WAMU sign off I want to scream. It's so annoying, pretentious and forced.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh my, agree it does not sound good.
Love Esther C, 1A, and weather guy Matthew C!

So offensive that talented journalists at WAMU are losing their jobs when a no-talent hack like Esther, who brings absolutely nothing to the table other than cracking lame jokes with Jen White and singing during her shifts, survives. Nobody wants to hear you sing, Esther, no one wants to hear your cringy jokes with Jen. Just go back to Vegas and leave DC already.

I am so with you. I cringe each morning when I hear the two of them having a cacklefest. It got so bad that I started to think that maybe they are a couple IRL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Time and space to have these conversations”

Translated from corporate-speak:

“We’re keeping all of you out of the office and locked out of the computer networks so none of you will shoot us in a fit of rage or copy a bunch of embarrassing or incriminating data that might make us look really bad later, because we raised tons of money over the years, kept it for our own compensation packages, and then fired you without warning”.

-WAMU management team.






That’s what time and space means.

Can some one post the 990?

[Anonymous]

I am in LA and listening to the public radio station here is a joy. They had a "left, right, center" story on how decriminalization of guns and carjacking in DC has led to more guns and carjacking in DC, and how the Black community suffers the most from these crimes.

We don't get that direct reporting on WAMU any more. Only stories told from the perspective of a marginalized group unless the perpetrator is also from a marginalized group. Then it's a no go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WTOP is the only reasonable option now.

Gimme that Neil Auuuuuugensteeeein

He’s the best! Did you all know he used to be a bouncer and in a band (we frequented the club he bounced at).

[Anonymous]

laying off most of its reporters including Jacob Fenston the only person I know covering DC area environmental news

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Anonymous wrote:1A is like the Today show most of the time - fluffy fluffy fluffy or too liberal. Very frustrating.

1A has good content but, yes, hours like "the history of eyeliner" is just too much.

Fie! I enjoy that content.