Klarinet Archive - Posting 000801.txt from 1997/11

From: Fred <fsheim@-----.com>
Subj: Re: A sad day in Detroit
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 18:47:02 -0500

It happened to WNCN in New York a few years back. I know the feeling. It
hurts to hear the acid rock playing where culture used to reside.

Fred (fsheim@-----.com)

At 05:12 PM 11/21/97 -0500, you wrote:
>I am listening at this moment to the final few minutes of WQRS as
>a classical station. Detroit, one of the 10 largest radio
>audiences in the U.S., is now without a classical radio station.
>The reason was lack of a long-term advertisers. The station was
>making money, just not enough. It is now (2 minutes after I started
>this letter) yet another rock station.
>
>If you are at all in a position to influence advertisers, please do
>so or your local classical station may be next.
>
>My hat's off to Dave Wagner, Charles Greenwell, and all the other
>staff at what was WQRS in Detroit. My house is strangely silent
>now, my teachers taken off the air, tears welling in my eyes.
>
>I'm lucky enough to be close to the Canadian border, where I'll be
>able to hear classical music broadcast from Windsor, Ontario. Thank
>you, my Canadian friends. May your radio stations be my new tutor,
>your announcers my close friends, even though I may never meet them.
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