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Clay

Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:29:01 -0600

The Austin Music Network has actually been self-sufficient (absolutely zero city funding) for a full year now. The timing is unfortunate, just as AMN proved itself capable it was replaced. However, I am hopeful that the new Austin Music Partners will continue forward with the mission that AMN began.

Clay

Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:27:18 -0600

The Austin Music Network has actually been self-sufficient (absolutely zero city funding) for a full year now. The timing is unfortunate, just as AMN proved itself capable it was replaced. I am hopeful that the new Austin Music Partners will continue forward with the mission that AMN began.

James S.

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:08:51 -0600

Both of you, please. The Austin Music Network lives on as an entity. Austin Music Partners is a group of investors who are going to try a model out. Taking the AMN into the private sector. You're both right. The AMN - the idea of it anyway - is important to the city. And, the AMN had to learn how to subside on it's own, it never did and wouldn't under the old model. Let's take the positive route and cheer on the success to a new model that may do what the AMN needs to do, promote Austin Musicians to Austinites and people worldwide through cable broadcast and streaming with adequate promotion and scheduling that they've never had. I'm looking forward to it.

allen

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 15:17:06 -0600

You're right on both counts. AMN spent ages dealing with crippling budgetary crisis before finally - and only recently, as it turns out - achieving some measure of self sufficiency. 60 days worth, to be fair - but it was a start. The whole story is retold here. And while I hardly hate corporate media ("hate" being an extreme feeling reserved for brussels sprouts and three-hour conference calls), I admit to harboring a strong frustration towards these massive entities who are so clearly more concerned with their bottom line than playing great music. It's not just we who feel this way - sadly, this comes straight from the mouths of people who work for these companies. The two aren't necessarily correlated - AMN's demise you might attribute to their own miscalculations. Or you might choose to see it in a larger context of the populace growing comfortable with easily-digestible, master-planned media and opting not to consider anything that isn't presented in glossy packaging. And I'm happy to say that in the two weeks I've lived here it's been amazing to witness just how entrenched in the creative community are the artists, musicians, writers I've met. Call it a naive optimism if you want - I don't want to see it change.

Ron Mexico

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 14:01:02 -0600

maybe if you'd live in Austin for more than a few weeks, you'd realize this has less to do with your misguided hatred for corporate media than it does to do with a municipally funded problem child that's been unable to figure out how to subsist on its own for years now.