Pat Finn
ProducerPat Finn previously served as a producer for KPBS Midday Edition and KPBS Evening Edition. Finn began her career in broadcasting at KTLA and KCET in Los Angeles. In 1979 she became KPBS’ Public Information Director, then Director of Advertising and Promotion, Program Director, and Director of Broadcasting. She oversaw the station’s local and national productions, including the one-hour documentary Los Romeros: The Royal Family of the Guitar, and Child Protective Services, a one-hour look inside the San Diego County agency responsible for the welfare of at risk children. Both programs also aired on public television stations nationwide. Finn has earned honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Pacific Southwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
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KPBS Midday EditionThe first touring exhibition of the work of American craftsman Gustav Stickley makes a stop at the San Diego Museum of Art from June 18 through September 11, 2011. We speak to a curator from the museum about the Arts and Crafts movement pioneer. -
Now that The Book Works is leaving us, Pat Finn wonders about the fate of the independent bookstore and finds one that is doing okay, thank you.
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KPBS Midday EditionLast week, the Rules Committee of the San Diego City Council declined to support the controversial "Jacobs Plan" to remove cars from the Plaza de Panama in Balboa Park by building a road around the Museum of Man. What is plan B for removing cars from the Plaza by 2015, the 100th anniversary of the Panama-California Exposition? -
KPBS Midday EditionThere's been a surprising about-face on the 20-year old effort to build a landfill in Gregory Canyon; Mobile-home owners in Oceanside are predicting the worst about a move to eliminate rent control; and we have more on the Surfing Madonna.
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The word "cast" has a gazillion meanings. Pat Finn is bothered by a couple of them regarding the CBS series NCIS. -
KPBS Midday EditionWe hear so much about the City of San Diego's budget because it's five times bigger than the next largest city in San Diego County. So let's get some perspective on how different cities are coping with cuts.
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- After meeting Putin, Trump changes his position on the need for a ceasefire
- Hundreds march to White House to protest Trump's D.C. crackdown