Lloyd Sitkoff wrote:

>Today's Dallas Morning News reports that the local radio station WRR
>has been named a finalist in the "classical music station of the year"
>category of the 1999 Marconi Radio Awards.  The other finalists are KFUO
>in St. Louis & WGMS in Washington D.C.  For those unfamiliar with the
>poor programming & sub par announcers of WRR check the archives from a few
>months ago for my posting of a typical day of WRR programming.  I believe
>the title of my post was "Any Way to run a Classical Station" What I am
>most interested in is 1) Is this a bogus competition? After all these are
>not exactly legendary stations 2) How do these other finalists stack up?
>Are they as bad as WRR? Your feedback appreciated.

As for question no.1...it would seem to me that it would be helpful to
see what criteria were considered.  I remember many years ago when I was
on the faculty of the University of Arizona, their music department was
given an award for its service to American Music.  I wrote the organization
that had given the award.  Informed them that the previous conductor of the
orchestra had been fired for "having programmed too much American Music."
Further, several years earlier I had asked if I could offer a course in
American Music.  I was willing to take it on as an overload.  Permission
denied.  From my perspective that "award" was a joke.

I would wonder how many stations were sampled.  Was this limited to NPR
stations?

Karl