Klarinet Archive - Posting 000808.txt from 1997/11

From: Nicholas Yuk Sing Yip <nyip@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: A sad day in Detroit
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 20:48:56 -0500

If they could not keep it, they could have done better, such as turned it
into a jazz station, rather a trash station.

On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Mark Charette 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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