First off, I am happy to report that it seems that Public TV has made it past the latest round of the "Zero Out" Wars. This money, also known as our Community Service Grant, helps us pay dues to provide shows. It is also used to produce shows that are of concern to the local public, in our case, the Los Angeles area. Glad to see it.
While those hours til the shutdown of the Government were going on, about 15 employees and former employees of KCET got together at Acapulco, for some lunch. We had major restrictions on what could and could not be said about the possible sale of our lot, but we could and did reminisce about the days when we produced Emmy Award winning shows for things like, PBS. At our table was Roy, who won an Emmy for Cosmos, along with Jerry, who also won for Cosmos. Dan who was our head editor and who was the engineer who shut off our analog transmitter, a few years ago. My Husband was in attendance, since he had worked there for a time and spent 20 years or so answering phones for our On Air Pledge Drives, so everyone knows him well. At least this generation of staff, do.
I know there is a lot of sadness with the potential loss of our lot (after all we have spent the past 40 years there)...but this was not where we began our lives as a Public TV station and it was good to get that perspective from the guys who worked our Vine Street location, at a time when we were not members of PBS. Property doesn't make the station...the people do.
A fun time was had and talk of another lunch was mentioned.
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