clamav-milter version 0.81b on buphy.bu.edu Status: O John Proffitt writes: >The public radio news and information format does generate good listener >support, in most cases. In the case of my station, we do more classical >music than news/information, and the support is very good from the >audience. But...the number of people who listen exclusively to the >classical music programming on KUHF is considerably less than 1/4 of our >overall audience. Most KUHF listeners listen to Morning Edition and >classical music and enjoy both! and support both! Well, John is to be congratulated on maintaining both news/information and classical music programming. There is of course no reason why such a balance should not work, but I remember an interview with a consultant which appeared in the New York Times a few years ago, and his general advice to stations was: you cannot do both and thrive. Proffitt has followed a different path. In Boston one station maintains a balance, the other (WBUR) has immersed itself in news, news, news. What a bore, but the Stepford listeners - very educated Stepford listeners, keep contributing. About twenty years ago NPR tried to pressure WGBH to cut back on early morning classical music in order to broadcast more of Morning Edition. Fortunately classical music was the domain of the very popular Robert J. Luertsma, and WGBH did not cave. Robert J. is no longer with us, but WGBH still leaves Morning Edition at 8 A.M., an hour earlier than WBUR. Now the station manager who purged WBUR of all vestiges of classical music has resigned. Perhaps the monomaniacal dedication to the Cult of News and Chit-chat will be reexamined. Bernard Chasan