Monday, January 18, 2010
KET Finds New Head
KENTUCKY....
Through a retirement incentive the state offered and budget reductions, Kentucky Educational Television has lost 21% of its staff In the past 18 months or so. The network has seen its allocation of state general funds cut by close to 20%. Former leader Mac Wall retired at the end of 2009, creating the way for Shae Hopkins, who has decades of experience, all at KET, to become the ideal choice to head the educational network. Hopkins says, in 1986, she saw an advertisement that KET was seeking someone to help with its pledge drive. Not seeking a career, she was asked to stay on and took on jobs, ending up with the job which pays her $150,000, up from her past salary of $122,412 as a deputy to Wall.
Through a retirement incentive the state offered and budget reductions, Kentucky Educational Television has lost 21% of its staff In the past 18 months or so. The network has seen its allocation of state general funds cut by close to 20%. Former leader Mac Wall retired at the end of 2009, creating the way for Shae Hopkins, who has decades of experience, all at KET, to become the ideal choice to head the educational network. Hopkins says, in 1986, she saw an advertisement that KET was seeking someone to help with its pledge drive. Not seeking a career, she was asked to stay on and took on jobs, ending up with the job which pays her $150,000, up from her past salary of $122,412 as a deputy to Wall.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 9:47 PM 
