Rich Courchesne: >Could this be because Public Radio has such a heavy political agenda that >music iconsistent with that agenda must be jettisoned? Just a thought. I >really miss Robert J. Lurtsema and Moring Pro Musica, birdcalls and all. Boy! Talk about a leap! One could equally say that it's not on because most people don't really care for classical music in general and opera in particular more than they care for talk (I have no idea whether this is true). NPR stations depend on contributions from listeners. The more listeners, the more money, runs the theory. Therefore, they do marketing studies. I think it's far more likely that marketing, rather than an Evil Media Political Conspiracy, dictates their programming. Steve Schwartz