Karl mentions how it once was in classical radio in the US...

>...only ...to point out how much things have changed.

I regret to say that, after almost three decades on air, Canada's CBC
radio recently cancelled the classical program that many of us considered
our best: Two New Hours, http://www.cbc.ca/2newhours/, hitherto broadcast
on Sundays from 10pm till midnight.

Hosted by composer Larry Lake, it was the only show devoted to new
Canadian and international music, and to interviewing its composers.
Over the past 29 years it did much to feed the hunger for new music in
Canada and along the US's northern states.  It was terminated without
prior announcement, and deals another harsh blow to classical in Canada
-- where the overall trend has clearly been to reduce the classical
component of the CBC's once first-rate music programs.

It would seem that in the commercialization of radio, as in so many other
things, Canada is not essentially different from the US, but merely lags
behind.

Bert Bailey, in Ottawa

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