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Article: Donors help WTVP closegap
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- The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
- Article date:
- January 25, 2008
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PEORIA - Peoria's critically ill WTVP is still on life support,
but the station's prognosis has been upgraded.
Thanks to "a couple of major donors," the $2 million needed to
save the PBS affiliate from certain death has now been reduced to
one-fourth that sum.
"For the first time in a long while, (there's) some real reason
for optimism," Chet Tomczyk, WTVP's president and CEO, said
Thursday.
But $500,000 is still $500,000, he added.
Right now, Tomczyk said the station can continue to remain on the
air with its remaining cash reserve through the end of February.
"After that, there will be nothing left. That's it. So it's
really important right now to resolve the remaining $500,000 debt."
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