Klarinet Archive - Posting 000615.txt from 2001/03
From: "cpaok@-----.net> Subj: Re: [kl] Pulling the plug on classical music. Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 18:09:17 -0500
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From: "Rezzie Flanders" <mezzrow@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Pulling the plug on classical music.
> I'm sorry to hear that you are receiving the same treatment we have been
> subjected to here in Jacksonville. After almost thirty years, our local
NPR
> affiliate WJCT-FM went to the daytime talk/night-time canned national feed
> from NPR or Minnesota Public Radio format about 12 - 18 months ago. I
don't
> know what this has meant for the station's bottom line - our only hope is
> that after a couple of years the bottom line doesn't look good enough and
> they change the format back. They've gotten my last membership dollar,
for
> sure.
>
> I suspect that no matter what happens, the local content (JSO concerts,
> music from JU/UNF, other local groups) is gone for good. From a distance
it
> appears that NPR on a national basis is being much more rigorous in
> requiring stations to follow a programming focus that will return revenue
to
> the mother ship rather than letting local programming/content form a
> significant portion of the content... Try the links on Mike's Radio World
> for internet links to many wonderful stations that are providing the kind
of
> programming we like - too many to name here... If you are fortunate
enough
> to have broadband connections or faster, the sound is getting quite
> acceptable in many places. I will, for the benefit of the list, withhold
> the rant about letting the free market provide what we need if the FCC
> wasn't in the pocket of (strangled silence)...
>
> Sadly,
>
> Rezzie Flanders
>
>
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