Lynn Samuels used to host a talk show on WABC 770-AM in New York City. I recall that Ms. Samuels urged her listeners NOT to send any money to WNET, Channel 13, the local PBS station in New York City, because the executives of that station saw nothing at all wrong with spending funds to build a gym for their own exclusive use or to spend $10,000 on a conference table for themselves.
I, too, donated money to the now-defunct WNYC, NYC's very own public station, to keep Dark Shadows on the air. The woman who took over that station as its chief executive decided that she did not like a "kitschy" show like Dark Shadows on her PBS station, and, had it yanked from the air. Fortunately, when David Dinkins became the new mayor of New York City, that new PBS station executive also got the heave-ho. ( I was tempted to write her and inform that she, too, had been a victim of the dreaded Collins Family Curse. But, I didn't want to kick her while she was down, even if she did deserve the needle, imo!)
