Karl Miller wrote: >... It changed from being about classical music to being >about radio. We had a full time staff of three. We then added someone >to coordinate membership/marketing, then a bookeeper, then a fundraiser >...At that point we got a new program director who started a policy >of playing movements from works and put prohibitions on what we could >broadcast. We went to offering a service overnight instead of having >our own people at the station. Then we had a computerized setup with >digitally stored public service announcements and started outsourcing >the preparation of "ads," which was followed by extending the overnight >service to the evenings, cancelling most of the locally produced >programming...well you get the drift...classical muzak had arrived. Absolutely heartbreaking. The only station I listened to in Austin for five years was the one Karl was on, and his own programs were best of all; and now it's been turned over to blue-rinsed matrons, with no evidence whatsoever that they would have objected to a string quartet by Benjamin Lees. Donald Clarke *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html