The Rutland Daily Herald from Rutland, Vermont • 20
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20 Rutland Daily Herald State Thursday, December 18, 1997 Vermont ETV Changing Name Vermont ETV, Vermont's PBS station, has announced that it will change its name to Vermont Public Television on Jan. 1. Through its system of four transmitters and two translators, Vermont ETV serves residents throughout its home state, while reaching into neighboring areas of New York, New Hampshire and southern Quebec. The name change is designed to reflect the station's close affiliation with PBS (the Public Broadcasting Service), as well as its commitment to providing statewide public television programming and community services. "Our 30th birthday seems a very appropriate occasion to make this change," said Hope Green, the station's president.
"It's time for our name to reflect who we've become over the course of 30 years Vermont's primary source for quality public television programming." Vermont ETV is the state's only PBS affiliate. The station went on the air Oct. 16, 1967. Green said the Vermont ETV name stemmed from the station's origins in educational programming. "Thirty years ago, we were primarily a school service, broadcasting about 10 hours a day and only on weekdays," she said.
"While we're still committed to providing learning opportunities and educational programming, particularly for children, the breadth of our program offerings, community service initiatives, and locally produced shows, has grown dramatically over the years. We are, in fact, much more than our current name indicates." John King, the station's senior vice president, said: "This change will also help us prepare for the future, as we move into the age of digital televi'sion and expanded service capabili-. ties. We know that our service to the Vermont community is going to grow, and we know that quality, informative programming, unique to public television, will continue to be our focus. For many reasons, calling ourselves Vermont Public Television is very natural step in our evolution." King pointed out that the change RECYCLE TODAY This Year Give A Gift That LASTS 715-7220 N.
Main Rutland Vermont applies to the station's trade name only. Its legally incorporated name will remain Vermont ETV Inc. "We're not changing our identity," said Green. "We're building on it. 'Vermont Public Television' reflects much more accurately who we are today.
That's important as we build a strong future for the station and for the Vermonters 1 we serve." Vermont ETV's broadcast channels are Burlington, Rutland, St. Johnsbury, Windsor, Manchester and Bennington. Physician Rec Recruitment Center Goes Private By ANNE WALLACE ALLEN The Associated Press MONTPELIER A health care recruitment office set up with a threeyear federal grant in 1994 is now running on its own. The Vermont Recruitment helps health care professionals and workplaces find each other without the help of private agencies, is collecting membership fees from 13 Vermont hospitals to pay its expenses now that its federal funding has expired. The Montpelier-based recruitment center placed more than 60 new practitioners from out of the state in Vermont health care jobs last year, said Executive Director Dee Rollins.
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Vermont is one of several states that received a federal Hospital Transition Grant award to coordinate recruitment efforts all over the state. The grant was used to set up the Vermont Recruitment Center. The recruitment center serves as a clearinghouse for job information for the providers and for hospitals that otherwise might spend as much as $28,000 on a private headhunting firm to find a new physician, Rollins said. And the recruitment center tries hard to find people who want to live in Vermont, she said. "The data says, if you hire a doctor through a commercial agency, the docs usually stay about two years," Rollins said.
"So they were getting doctors that weren't used to the elements of the weather, and a lot of the spouses didn't realize there wasn't a Bloomingdale's on every corner. So the hospitals and practices were spending an awful lot of money and then the person was gone in two years." Rollins has studied providers to figure out which ones might be happiest in a rural state with a long win- ter, where physicians historically earn slightly less than their counterparts in other states. She said biking, fly-fishing, and skiing, in that order, were the recreational activities that doctors were looking for right now. "Basically it's an all-around outfor," element they're coming here she said. "The state is considered very safe, the communities have been paying attention to education for decades, so they might be earning a little less, but they count Vermont as being part of their paycheck because they can have such a quality of life." WE CAN DELIVER PEACE OF MIND Rutland, VT.
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