WQED announces layoffs - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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On Tuesday, the public broadcasting company announced that it laid off nine employeews and eliminated two additional staff Whilethe laid-off employees were not identified, WQED described the employeesx as “executive to hourly to non-exempt” in a pressd release. WQED described the move as a responsew to ongoingeconomic turmoil, and the potential reductio n in revenue for varying the most pressing the $1.1 million WQED typicallyt gets from the state. Governor Ed Rendelkl proposed eliminating all funding forthe state’se public broadcasting companies for the 2009-2019 budget. WQED said it would offer a packager to assist in job searches and professionalcareedr development.
George L. Miles, Jr., Presidentt and CEO, offered an unusually extensive preparef statement aboutthe cutbacks. “This is a drastic actiom and a very painfuol day in the historhy ofthis station, in Pittsburgh and in this region that we servr when we have to respond to financial pressurex by cutting staff. “Our employees have givenh back to this company inmultiple ways--through salarhy cuts and freezes and by paying more for theid health care. We cut budgets and expenses, including suspension of travep andpension contributions-pensions that are the basisx for our future and the futures of our families. Everyonde who works here has done everythinvg to keep thisorganization going.
“Then earlier this Governor Rendell proposed a state budgert that eliminated all state funding forpublic television, includin g $1.1 million for WQED. Since 1968, WQED used theser state monies for station operations and For the past five monthsx we mounted a public communications campaign to explain why those monies were important to our daily We now have to confrongt the reality that these state monies may neverdbe reinstated.” Miles also expectsd revenue reductions from individual donationas as well as from private foundationw and corporations as WQED faces difficult choices leadint up to its new fiscal year, whic begins Oct. 1.
WQED said not to expec t the new cuts to impactthe station’s In late May, WQED sold off its long-timer publishing arm, Pittsburgh Magazine.