[78-L] Too late to circle the wagons

[Cary Ginell]

There are a lot of NPR stations that are doing this. I have a feeling that NPR is strong-arming stations into playing more of their programming and threatening to pull their affiliation if stations do not do so. This happened with KCLU in Thousand Oaks, which was a jazz station when I started with them in 1994. Little by little, NPR programs took over the airwaves until virtually no live local programming was left. It is now 90% network news, NPR's special interest game shows, and local talk with only a few scattered hours of jazz left. Some programs, such as Prairie Home Companion and Car Talk are played TWICE weekly.

 

Cary Ginell
 
> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:54:09 -0500
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> From: bratcher at pdq.net
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Too late to circle the wagons
> 
> We have 3 college stations that possibly use student DJ's & staff 
> however I think 88.7 (KUHF) which is owned by the University Of 
> Houston with a classical/NPR format is run by professionals. For one 
> thing they play too much NPR & not enough classical to keep me as a 
> listener. I don't listen to the other college station very much if at all.
> 
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