Re: click and clack

[Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 06:37:44 -0400 "Dan Strassberg"
<dan.strassberg@att.net> writes:
> To my knowledge, Car Talk, for all of its commercial tie-ins (on the 
> Web,
> for example) is heard only on Public Radio stations. I doubt whether 
> anyone
> has figured out how to work the commercial and noncommercial sides 
> of the
> street as consistently, as effectively, and with as few 
> repercussions as the
> Magliozzi brothers. Thanks to Jane Christo's crusade against similar 
> deals,
> it appears, though, that Tom and Ray are the last people who will 
> ever
> harness the obvious possibilities for synergy between public and 
> private
> broadcasting. Jane has snuffed out the kind of entrepreneurial 
> spirit that
> has been eminently successful in bringing creative radio to an 
> audience that
> instinctively rejects commercial radio. Both Public Radio and the 
> listening
> public are the losers.
> --
> Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
> 617-558-4205, eFax 707-215-6367
To the best of my knowledge Tom and Ray own Cartalk not WBUR, I could be
wrong but I don't think so.  Since Cartalk is not done live they probably
could customize a version for commerical radio
df