Donald Satz writes: >... Maybe the best way for these stations to go is to just play the Four >Seasons, Albioni's/Barber's Adagios, and Pachelbel's Canon repeatedly on >automatic pilot and save the money spent on dj's. It is worth noting that Mr. Satz' satirical comment refers to American commercial FM stations, and epitomizes them perfectly. However, when I live in Sweden or France (as I do part of the time), I am fortunately able to listen to classical music on the public FM stations. They broadcast standard repertoire, of course, but also broadcast a fair amount of pre-baroque music, modern music, and contemporary music. Why, on the European public stations, I sometimes hear music I have not heard before, a danger from which American commercial stations protect me 99.99% of the time over here. In other postings, Mr. Satz has offered the theory that public services would be expected to offer an impoverished content when compared with private enterprise. In the case of classical music on FM, the facts are evidently exactly opposite to the theory. Could it be that there is something wrong with the theory? Cheers//Jon Gallant