A Listmember recently complained about a volunteer announcer on a non-commercial FM station who mispronounced CPE Bach's name. I would prefer an occasional mispronounciation to the heavy-handed cuteness cultivated by "professional" announcers on the typical commercial CM station. They may know how to pronounce Fibich, but their affectations ("we are having Vivaldi to dinner tonight") are nothing short of repulsive. Frankly, I think the few non-commercial stations which still broadcast serious music deserve our gratitude. Most NPR stations have gone to pure yak format. And most commercial CM stations limit themselves to easy-listening classical background music, from Vivaldi's "Seasons" to Tchaikowsky ballet suites--occasionally enlivened (if that is the right word) by OBSCURE easy-listening classical background music like Fibich. Come to think of it, the cutesy announcing style is probably contrived to wake up the listener in time to breathe in a commercial message. Jon Gallant Genetics Department University of Washington