Don Satz on classical radio:

>Concerning the premise that serious classical music fans don't buy much of
>anything and are scorned by advertisers, there's likely much truth to that.

WCRB, a commercial, super bland classical station in Boston has
advertisements for retirement communities and assisted living facilities,
among others. Depressing, no? But they also advertise a lot of expensive
stuff-rugs, antiques, etc.

Sign of terminal blandness: the WCRB announcer gave a quick Boston Symphony
announcement: not a commercial, just a public info thing: The BSO is
playing Mozart and Haydn tonight. The announcement omitted the third
composer on the program, that wild radical, Ned Rorem. This is not the
forst time they have done something like that.

Professor Bernard Chasan
Physics Department, Boston University