Maine Public Radio fundraising

[Laurence Glavin]

>DATE: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 17:57:44 
>From: "Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>
>To: "Boston Radio" <boston-radio->interest@bostonradio.org>
Cc:
>Maine Public Radio did one of its on-air beg-a-thon last week.  It was
>apparent thing weren't going well on Thursday morning when they weren't
>close to half way to their goals for pledges or money.  As a result, the
>fundraising breaks just got longer and longer.  I was in the car on Thursday
>afternoon and they did a fundraising pitch that went from 5:20 until 5:45.
>Whenever I tuned in on Friday, they were begging.
>
>Is this tactic typical or just a result of obvious shortfalls in
>fundraising?
>
>-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine
>
>
Is Maine Public TELEVISION also doing fund raising?
Sometimes if TWO listener/viewer supported entities
are in mendicant mode, there just may not be enough $$$$
to go around.  Where I live, in recent days WGBH/WGBX-TV,
WBUR, WEVO and WERS are running or have run beg-a-thons.

Laurence Glavin





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