Jon Johanning wrote:
>Thanks to Lloyd Sitkoff for presenting the Dallas/Ft. Worth station log.
>
>My reaction is that, if this is a typical day at this station, the
>selections are not too bad. (Especially for Texas, as seen from the effete
>East Coast!)
As another Dallasite who has to listen to that station all day, I
say...YUCK! WRR's daytime programming is deplorable! About as exciting
as a dial tone.
>The "editorial" comments by the announcer (and the announcers on the
>station here give out a few now and then, too) do set my teeth a bit on
>edge, but I happen to be a listener who prefers "just the facts, ma'am"
>from announcers ...
Just the other day, WRY announcer Dan Bates belched into the microphone
and then proceeded to talk about it for a full three minutes. Furthermore,
Raoul Enriquez' constant editorializing (not to mention his verbal faux
pas such as saying things like "Joshua Bell -at- violin", and "Beethoven
-and-the ninth symphony" and dragging out the intros by repeating the
information 10 times) cause me to literally shout at my radio! Dallas
projects itself as a world class city. It goes out of its way to look
cosmopolitan. Folksy approaches kill that goal. When I was a newby to
computers I had to learn how to use them. Newbys to music should do
likewise.
>Since radio is considered as TV without pictures these days, any station
>needs to have a personality to attract and hold listeners, so that
>traditional way of presenting CM on radio has to be modified.
Having a personality is fine. I would rather that WRR have the personality
of someone other that Forrest Gump though.
>Hope that the quality of the Fort Worth Orchestra concert was not too
>embarassing, for a community orchestra.
I would not brand (no pun intended) the Ft. Worth Symphony Orchestra,
which has a brand new multi-million dollar performance hall, a year-round
season, is the orchestra for the International Van Cliburn Piano
Competition and is now holding a world wide search for a new music
director, a "community" orchestra. They are a fine ensemble indeed and
hardly an embarrassment to the city.
>Depends on which " market" (as the media folks say) you are in. This
>might be about the best that can be done in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area,
Alas for us, WRR is owned by the city of Dallas. It is a sacred cow and
will never improve until either we get lucky enough to get a qualified
program director purely by accident or the city sells it. This of course
would not happen because the city would no longer have a venue to broadcast
city council meetings, and if it was sold, the chances of it staying a
classical station would be slim indeed. At least they broadcast syndicated
programming often enough to relieve the embarrassment of the day to day
operation.
Kevin Sutton
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