Klarinet Archive - Posting 000858.txt from 1997/11

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Classical Music Stations Disappearing
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 19:10:41 -0500

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Date: Saturday, November 22, 1997 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: Classical Music Stations Disappearing

>At 02:41 PM 11/22/97 -0500, Karl Krelove wrote:
>>This is simply free-market economics in action. However, I can foresee a
>>serious monopoly problem looming in radio and TV very soon, a problem that
>>transcends whether or not I can hear classical music on my radio, the very
>>problem the original regs were designed to prevent.
>>
>Aren't any of these markets that are losing commercial classical stations
>served by public radio? Here in Michigan, between Central Michigan
>University, U of M, MSU, Delta College, and Interlochen, there is a lot of
>classical music available on the radio.
>
Yes. Here in the Bucks County area (a suburban Philadelphia region) we get a
Trenton State University PBS outlet. A little farther north brings me in
range of a Princeton station. There is PBS coming from local, low power
outlets, and you have to hunt for them down near the bottom of the FM dial
each time you drive out of a station's broadcasting area. But PBS moves from
classical music to national music to talk and interviews to jazz, and if
what you want isn't on just then, there are fewer and fewer alternatives. No
one in this area is broadcasting all classical. Besides, PBS has come under
attack in Congress more than once in the past decade, and its survival is by
no means a sure thing. Moreover, its demise is called for by many of the
same government officials who most staunchly demand and support deregulation
of much of the rest of the economy from radio frequencies to airlines and
banks. As things are developing, I'm not confident that public radio will
always be there to provide what commercial radio doesn't.

Karl

   
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