The Boston Globe reports:
If the board members of the controlling company, Boston Common Press, know what’s best for them, they won’t change a thing.
Cook’s is a publishing anomaly. There are no advertisements in its pages and yet it has a paid circulation of at least 900,000 readers. It is wildly successful, and America’s Test Kitchen, which stars Kimball, is PBS’s most highly rated cooking show. So how did Kimball’s exit come to pass?
In September, David Nussbaum was announced to be the new chief executive at Boston Common Press. Globe reporter Beth Healy writes, “The board has been negotiating with Kimball since then on a future role for him at the company, but talks fell apart in recent weeks, according to people briefed on the conversations.” (The official note to staffers, which explains “while [Kimball] will remain a minority owner of the company, he will no longer play a role at ATK,” can be found here.)
Although the board’s suggestion that Kimball “stay with the company and focus his talents on creativity, on-air presence and in-person appearances” sounds like an easy gig, having interviewed Chris Kimball on a few occasions, an easy gig is not something he wants. He’d rather have a say.
In 2009, I visited Kimball in Brookline Village, Mass., where I sat in on a taping of America’s Test Kitchen. During the lunch hour I interviewed him in his office for a profile in THE WEEKLY STANDARD. His thoughts behind the magazine and the show are worth keeping in mind.
On the lack of ads:
As for the point of this enterprise:
And lastly,
