Ray Bay wrote: >... The program does not fit within the budget constraints of most member >stations due to the high cost, as public radio stations have lost public >funding each year since 1996. The work to keep Performance Today is best >spent on organizations that will pay for local sponsorship... or for >sponsors who care. I believe that quality programming does not necessarily require "quality" budgets. On the other hand, I just don't see a place for classical music on NPR. NPR has evolved a long way from those notions of educational broadcasting. If responding to listener's "wants" is the point...then I don't see that it should qualify for tax exempt status. Karl