However, at a special four-hour meeting in downtown Toronto Friday, 449 of the station’s member-donors voted to oust the troubled not-for-profit broadcaster’s current 11-person board, while 440 voted to support the incumbent board. “We are pleased with the result and we want to focus on moving forward with positive change,” said Brian Hemming, one of the founders of Save JAZZ.FM, the group that had pushed for the overhaul. Hemming’s Save JAZZ.FM group was formed to push for governance and operational changes at the station, though it first had to fight the station itself in court. We respect what members from both sides have had to say.”In a second motion, the nominees Save JAZZ.FM proposed for a new board won the day. (McCarthy Tetrault, led by Shane D’Souza and Ryan MacIsaac, did the heavy legal lifting for Save JAZZ.FM.)

Source: National Post February 16, 2019 02:03 UTC