Globe: Met Opera out at WBOQ

[Larry Weil]

At 08:03 PM 1/1/2004, Brian Vita wrote:
> >Yea, I saw the article, it's just a one-sided puff piece for the
> >station.  There's no mention of the many people displaced by the format
> >change, and no justification for why they need to change the music in order
>
> >to get a more local focus.
>
>What justification to they need?  They own the station.  They can do
>whatever they want, regardless of marketablility.  Until they sell, or
>otherwise lose the license, they could broadcast dialtone and be within
>their rights.

I wasn't talking about a legal justification.  Of course they have the 
legal right to change format.  I was talking about justification in the 
context of the article, in terms of justifying it to their audience, etc..


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Larry Weil
Lake Wobegone, NH