{"id":491,"date":"2007-10-15T15:13:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T22:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/15\/another-oregon-company-loses-local-ownership\/"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:16:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:16:45","slug":"another-oregon-company-loses-local-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/15\/another-oregon-company-loses-local-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"another oregon company loses local ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tektronix<\/a>, one of the first companies to set up shop in Oregon’s celebrated “Silicon Forest<\/a>” high tech community of companies, has been sold to a Washington, D.C. conglomerate<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Tektronix was one of our featured sponsors of our first Classical A subscription week, and it was encouraging to have a prominent local company support the symphony in a highly public way.\u00c2\u00a0 Therefore it was disappointing and worrying to read the headline on this afternoon’s edition of The Oregonian.\u00c2\u00a0 The orchestra has been relatively lucky in receiving support from both those corporations who are not headquartered locally and those who are.\u00c2\u00a0 However, when a company is bought out by an out-of-state interest, it may become more likely that interest in supporting local entities may wane.\u00c2\u00a0 I sincerely hope that those who remain with Tektronix in Oregon will continue to make the case for putting money back into the local community – arts causes or otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tektronix, one of the first companies to set up shop in Oregon’s celebrated “Silicon Forest” high tech community of companies, has been sold to a Washington, D.C. conglomerate.\u00c2\u00a0 Tektronix was one of our featured sponsors of our first Classical A subscription week, and it was encouraging to have a prominent local company support the symphony […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,3667,55,3666,19,62],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-classical","tag-fundraising","tag-orchestra","tag-oregon","tag-philanthropy","tag-symphony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-7V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/04\/the-value-of-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":491,"position":0},"title":"the value of radio","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 4, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I was perusing the 2002 Audience Insight study (presented by the John S. and James L. 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