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Source: The Charleston Gazette, W.迷你倉新蒲崗Va.Sept. 05--CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The West Virginia Educational Broadcasting Authority continues working to raise money and control spending, as it faces continued cuts in federal and state funds that help support West Virginia's public television and public radio networks.Tammy Treadway, chief financial officer of the West Virginia Public Broadcasting Foundation, told a WVEBA board meeting Wednesday West Virginia's public broadcasting facilities had a 7.5 percent budget reduction, or $423,000, for the fiscal year ending June 30.Treadway predicted a similar 7.5 percent reduction for the current state fiscal year, which will come to about $390,000. WVPB has its main operating centers in Charleston, Morgantown and Beckley.The EBA must also finance rebuilding some of the group's towers and transmitters around the state."But while we lost a lot of our government funding, our membership is up," Treadway said. EBA estimated it would get $1.245 million in private donations this year but actually received $1.327 million in donations.Today, WVPB gets about half of its money from state government. By 2020, it will get only one-third of its money from the state.Scott Finn, who became executive director of West Virginia Public Broadcasting in February, is traveling around the state to promote the organization's work."I have already done 12 events and will do another 12. I see a deep amount of love and goodwill across the state," said Finn, who was previously a reporter for the Gazette, a reporter for West Virginia Public Radio, then news director for WUSF-TV, a public television station in Tampa, Fla."We have some challenges, especially from outages. Our towers need repair," Finn said. "We have 27 transmitters throughout the state, mostly on leased land. In Tampa, we served 4 million people with just one tower."Public Broadcasting recently built a new tower in Welch, McDowell County."We spend a lot of money on buying equipment and maintaining towers. A lot were built with federal grant money." Finn said WVPB must also update a lot of its camera equipment.Mountain Stage, which has been producing 迷你倉出租eekly programs for more than 25 years, is now spending more time traveling to out-of-town venues."Mountain Stage was forced to hit the road to survive," Finn said. "We make more money on the road."Federal sequester cuts have also hurt WVPB, whose budget was $12.5 million in 1996 but only $8.9 million in 2013."Adjusting for inflation, we are operating on half of what we operated on in the mid-1990s," Finn said."We cut 12 positions, or 15 percent of our workforce, in recent years. We will probably cut five more positions this year. We will have 80 people left," Finn said.But no one has been laid off."As people leave, we retrain other people and ask them to take on new action, in addition to their regular jobs," Finn said. "We are also hiring someone to solicit major gifts and a curriculum specialist to work with schools."We hope to double our major gifts, of $1,000 or more, by 2016," Finn said. "We also work to help motivate children in areas like science, engineering and math. And we work with the state Division of Culture and History."WVPB is also planning a more sophisticated website it hopes will double the news traffic it has today.Ted Armbrecht, an EBA board member, said he is working on an endowment fund that already has $434,000 in it. Armbrecht said he hopes it will have $1 million in the near future.WVPB has also worked to change all its television operations from analog to digital broadcasting.Like other public news networks in rural areas, WVPB has been able to use rural development grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to change to digital broadcasting, said Shawn Patterson, the WVPB communications director.Digital broadcasting for television stations frees up more space for users including government agencies and private cell phone owners.More information about WVPB is available at: .wvpubcast.org/default.aspx. The board will hold its next meeting on Dec. 4.Reach Paul J. Nyden at pjnyden@wvgazette.com or 304-348-5164.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Charleston Gazette (Charleston, W.Va.) Visit The Charleston Gazette (Charleston, W.Va.) at .wvgazette.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉