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DIVORCED. Carl Sagan, 46, astronomer, author and star of the PBS TV series Cosmos; and Artist Linda Sagan, 38; after twelve years of marriage, one son; in Los Angeles. Sagan, who separated from Linda 3½ years ago, plans to marry Novelist Ann Druyan in June...
Many other stations, however, are just as firmly convinced that PBS President Lawrence Grossman, who sponsored the plan, has made serious mistakes in both math and logic. "The projected revenues are not realistic," complains Lloyd Kaiser, president of Pittsburgh's WQED. "They will add up to a very small amount of money for each station." John J. Iselin of New York's Channel 13 says that PBS might well have to borrow $100 million from banks and insurance companies just to set up the new venture. Even a supporter of the proposal like WETA's Chamberlin...
Still, the Reagan Administration's proposed 25% cut in federal money for public TV and radio-$43 million out of $172 million-makes some such money-making scheme almost mandatory. Even before the election. PBS and local stations had been looking for new funds. PBS now makes $1 million a year by renting out time on its transmitting satellite; five local stations hope to make money soon on their new program magazine, the Dial, which has won all challenges to its nonprofit status. Chicago's WTTW is already making more than $300,000 a year...
Already, there have been cutbacks and layoffs at some stations. Boston's WGBH, which produces some of PBS's best programs, such as Nova and World, last year laid off 108 people, almost a quarter of its staff. At KQED in San Francisco, news was dropped altogether when 35 people, 16% of the staff, were...
Ironically, a $150 million gift to public TV and radio from Publisher Walter Annenberg (TV Guide, Seventeen), announced less than two weeks ago. will do little to bail out PBS. Annenberg's money, spread over 15 years, will finance the production of a PBS program of college-level courses, but it will not subsidize regular programming. Some Congressmen assume that Annenberg's gift will do precisely that, however, and are now asking public TV executives, "What do you need our money...