Re: Clear Channel expose coming to PBS this weekend...

[Larry Weil <kc1ih@mac.com>]

At 10:24 PM -0400 4/24/02, Dibmaine@aol.com wrote:
>
><<What national program does your public broadcaster attempt to deceive
>  listeners into thinking is local? >>
>
>I was not focusing on deception, but I think public stations are guilty of
>cookie cutter programs and stations autopilot.  The formats of most NPR
>affiliates across the country are strikingly similar from market to market.
>I don't see that as much different from what Clear Channel does.

I think it's a lot different because the public stations are a 
network, and don't try to represent themselves as anything else. 
And, I think it would just be too cost prohibitive for each station 
on Maine Public Radio to produce it's own local programs.  They'd 
have to start by building a studio.

You'd probably find more local programming on community stations in 
Maine such as WMPG and WERU, albeit much of it might be too much left 
wing for your tastes, and sometimes even too left for my tastes.

-- 
Larry Weil
Lake Wobegone, NH