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Kyle Major approaches asymtotically:
>I think there would be many more private classical music stations if
>they weren't able to get public funding.
My apologies for being dense, Kyle, but what is the connection here? If
public funding were withdrawn from public radio, are you saying, it would
go under and be replaced by private stations with similar programming?
Or is it some other "they" that is the object?
>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.
At the risk of being repetitious -- I'm coming in rather late in this
thread, I think -- let me ask which you would rather have: Programming
arising [at least ideally] from musical considerations, or programming
subject to the control of a marketing manager in turn beholden to
advertisers?
John Wiser
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