Re: NHPR Chief Named Chairman of NPR Board

[Larry Weil <kc1ih@mac.com>]

At 05:23 PM 11/16/02 -0500, Aaron 'Bishop' Read wrote:

>At 03:59 PM 11/15/2002, Larry Weil wrote:
>>Look for all music to disappear from NPR:
>>http://www.concordmonitor.com/stories/news/local2002/notie_mark_handley_2002.shtml
>That'd be a good thing, IMHO.   NPR is not the greatest when it comes to 
>music, and it opens the door for someone who can do it better to come in 
>and steal the market.
>
>Granted, I'm lucky enough to be in an area where we're swamped with 
>college stations, all playing new and unusual music (lately too many 
>stations, actually...all trying to be the same thing I've noticed).  But 
>if there's a market to be exploited, someone will exploit it.  :-)

Under Handley, all locally produced Jazz and Classical has disappeared from 
NHPR.  There has not been any commercial or college station picking up the 
slack, AFAIK.

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Larry Weil
Lake Wobegone, NH