Klarinet Archive - Posting 000827.txt from 1997/11

From: Edinger/Gilman <wde1@-----.com>
Subj: market size and radio stations
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 12:43:54 -0500

Re the slow extinction of "classical" radio stations - I don't know if
it's me or what, but it seems like the large cities are where these
stations are gone first. And I mean that there are NONE left. I had a
terrrible time in Washington (DC) finding anything, and now in
California, in Fresno, pop. 400,000, there's just one (it's a pretty
good one though). In Geneva, NY, pop. 15,000, I was in range of FOUR
very good stations: Syracuse, Rochester, Binghamton (via Ithaca), and a
local substation in Geneva, plus several others you could get if you had
better equipment than I had. Boston seemed pretty meager too (my
tolerance for Lurtsema is very low), but Albany had several. Maybe the
market parameters in large cities make low-audience stations non-viable,
whereas in smaller markets they can survive? Anyone have any expertise
in this? It seems odd.

Bill E.