John Wiser:

>Without taking direct issue, Karl, where is the commercial competition
>for the subject matter customary to public broadcasting? I'm particularly
>interested to know where the commercial classical-music stations are,
>outside of major market areas and whether they actually offer anything
>directly comparable to the few surviving music programs in the NPR orbit.

I think there would be many more private classical music stations if
they weren't able to get public funding.  In cities where public classical
stations have been around for a long time, there generally isn't enough of
a market to introduce a second, commercial station.  Perhaps it would be
more difficult to compete with the less advertising based format, too.

I realize that this isn't a list on television, but seeing commercial
mirrors for much of PBS's programming is not difficult at all.

Note that I don't necessarily intend this message to be for or against
public broadcasting.

Kyle Major
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