[78-L] Too late to circle the wagons

[David Lennick]

I can remember when I'd listen to WQXR AM on the late night drive home from 
Oshawa. Complete with live commercials for Hotel Bar Butter.

Toronto doesn't have one station playing classical full time. The CBC cut it 
back to 5 hours a day of "Classics for Imbeciles", CJRT is long gone, CFMX has 
been known to play some interesting tidbits interspersed with 6-minute clusters 
of the noisiest, most offensive commercials produced since Fessenden's day.

dl

simmonssomer wrote:
> The New York Times has announced that they've sold WQXR-FM, their 69 year 
> old classical music station with 6,000 watts of FM power, sitting in the 
> middle of the dial at 96.3. It was peddled to a publicly funded independent 
> station (WNYC 93.3) which will move what will be left of WQXR  way up the 
> dial to 105.3FM
> The powerful 96.3 frequency is being handed over to a latino music station.
> At the new 105.3 location WQXR, or whatever it will be called, will boast 
> all of 600 watts. Hundreds of thousands of metro area suburban  listeners 
> will therefore lose the signal of this, the only classical station in our 
> New York Metro Area.
> Apparently The Times needed the money. The price was in the neighborhood of 
> a pitiful 30 million...not as much as you'd get if you win the lottery.
> The new owners implied that ESSENTIALLY the programming will be SIMILAR to 
> what it has been for the last 65 years, i.e. classical music.
> I don't believe that  WNYC, a Public Affairs talk radio station,  will 
> maintain classical music programming on their new property.
> They're not interested in it with their current programming on WNYC and the 
> lack of classical programming there bodes ill for their new little puddle 
> hopper.
> If they stick to Classical it still won't matter.  They can't reach more 
> than say, twenty miles
> The Times they are a-changin'.
> 
> Nothing can be done.
> Follow the money!
> I am cancelling my subscription to The Times.
> Big deal!
> 
> Al Simmons
> 
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