Not sure if this is a rights issue or not (if so they should say it) but the wholesale erasure of the Keillor content was disturbing. I commented it would be similar to Netflix not just canceling House of Cards or Amazon ending Transparent but deleting the shows completely and pretending they never existed. I was not a fan of HBO purging past Louis C.K. content either but he was 99% of the content of the show. APHC had other performers and the Writers' Almanac exposed Americans to various poets. It's no different than when Joe Ricketts bought the -ist city news sites and deleted the content, which engendered much media concern for the work lost.
On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 3:03 PM, 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > FWIW, > > No name change for the show as yet, but the PrairieHome.org website > appears to link strictly to Thile-hosted content (though Keillor is > mentioned in the relevant historical portions of the site). The Pretty > Good Goods catalog was hosted on mpr.org and now simply reads: > > "Pretty Good Goods is no longer in service. All current orders placed on > Pretty Good Goods will be fulfilled in the standard timeframe." > > Keillor also has a syndicated column in many newspapers. As it isn't > affiliated with American Public Media or MPR, I suppose it could continue. > > I didn't expect it either, but I'm not surprised. Perhaps this is because > of the current cleaning of house and/or a mild caddish vibe I get from him > for reasons I can't quite pinpoint. (No, it's not the cadre of > comparatively younger women he sings with on the show.) > > David > > On Wednesday, November 29, 2017, 1:48:14 PM EST, Diner < > bwayst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > By terminating the contracts, MPR and American Public Media (APM) will: > > * end distribution and broadcast of The Writer's Almanac and rebroadcasts > of The Best of A Prairie Home Companion hosted by Garrison Keillor; > > * change the name of APM's weekly music and variety program hosted by > Chris Thile; and, > > * separate from the Pretty Good Goods online catalog and the > PrairieHome.org website. > > > Thile's version of PHC has a live episode (from Town Hall in New York) > coming up on Saturday. They better change the name of that show soon. > > > On Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at 12:55:35 PM UTC-5, Brad Beam wrote: > > Garrison Keillor fired for alleged improper behavior by Minnesota Public > Radio > > > https://usat.ly/2nc20tQ > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
