Klarinet Archive - Posting 000897.txt from 1997/11

From: "Robert Reyes" <robert_40@-----.com>
Subj: Re: A sad day in Detroit
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 17:58:39 -0500

Mark 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.
>>

Mark,
I do not know what to say. I live in LA and our Classical Station
KKGO has a strong influeance in the communtiny. So to all of you who
think that LA has no culture I say "AT least we have a classical radio
station and you don't!" I hope that this doesn't tick anybody off.

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