Advisory council condemns “misguided” KPLU sale, calls out PLU for “misleading, “flatly incorrect” statements

The University’s assertion that it now cannot afford to allow KPLU to continue using a facility whose construction KPLU listeners and supporters funded is breathtakingly out of touch.

— Excerpt from a letter sent by KPLU’s Advisory Council to its owner, Pacific Lutheran University, formally opposing the station’s sale to the University of Washington, which already owns and operates NPR affiliate KUOW.

Joel Connelly has more at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.