[Trombone-l] WBEZ-CHICAGO PLANS TO PHASE OUT MUSIC

[Roger Carmichael]

For those of us with classical music tastes that travel I-40 everyday, WDAV is my station headed East until I get close to Greensboro where the signal gets rather weak, then I switch to WCPE.  In the afternoons, it works in reverse.  Both of these stations are classical for the most part.  I agree, there is some NPR blather on WDAV but none on WCPE, as WCPE is solely listener sponsored.  Both can be accessed via the Internet for all day, all night listening.
Roger


-----Original Message-----
>From: Fred Hudson <fmhudson at arkansas.net>
>Sent: Apr 12, 2006 12:04 PM
>To: david at trombone.org, billdin at comcast.net, TROMBONE-L at server5.samford.edu
>Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] WBEZ-CHICAGO PLANS TO PHASE OUT MUSIC
>
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Untitled" <david at trombone.org>
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>> I lived in San Diego in the early 70s, and listened to a station that
>broadcast jazz in the morning and classical music afternoons and evenings.
>Then they went to all classical. (It was KFSD. I wouldn't be surprised if
>it's a talk station now.) Anyway, I called the station to ask about it and
>was told that the audience for jazz was smaller than the audience for
>classical music, and new owners insisted that they choose one format or the
>other.
>
>This Unfortunate trend began in the late 80's when I lived in the DC area.
>WGMS, a commercial all music station dropped jazz to become all "pure"
>classical. Then they started carrying the Redskins games. I guess "Hail to
>the Redskins" is a classic in some peoples minds!
>
>> Now I'm living in North Carolina. When I first moved here, the NPR station
>in Chapel Hill had long abandoned music. The one in Winston Salem used to
>bill itself as "your NPR and classical music station". The only trouble was
>that it rarely played any classical music during any of the times I turned
>it on. I did catch a lot of folk music and other stuff that didn't sound
>very classical. Now it bills itself as "your NPR and Triad arts station".
>That one's WFDD, which I guess means We're Forever Dumbing Down.
>
>I don't know what part of NC you live in but if you are within range of WDAV
>89.9 at Davidson College (my Alma Mater - crass commercial message) I am
>sure they still play a lot of classical music - don't know for sure about
>jazz - but they do carry a lot of NPR blather.
>
>
>> There is a non-profit,  non-commericial classical station in the Triangle
>area, WCPE, which broadcasts over the internet in five streaming formats.
>(go to theclassicalstation.org if you're interested). I don't know what
>jazzers can find along the same, but it seems that the national management
>of NPR has been systematically trying to get rid of music for years now.
>
>I now live in South Arkansas where I pick up the NPR station in Shreveport,
>LA which has a nice mix of classical and jazz. Only problem is poor
>reception so I have to get it in streaming format over the internet. I have
>XM radio in my car and recently added a home receiver. Three classical
>formats and three jazz formats. Looks like NPR is forcing us to pay for our
>excellent taste in music.
>
>
>> Speaking of WCPE, the FCC was sqeezing and pressuring it for years,
>apparently because it is not any part of a large conglomerate, requiring it
>to do things at considerable expense that no other area radio station had to
>do. Jesse Helms, of all people, came to the rescue.
>
>Actually Jesse was a Television News Editorialist before he went into
>politics. Defense of the media would be up his alley.
>
>Fred H
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