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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
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