"Savvy Traveler" Waves Goodbye

[Dan Strassberg]

They'll probably fill the hour with yet one more hour of stuffy, dry as
dust, BBC news. Can't people get the BBC on the Internet? Do we have to have
it on the radio? Does the CBC produce anything that WBUR could pick up
instead of the BBC? The BBC is out of touch with listener sensibilities on
this side of the Atlantic. WBUR's reliance on the BBC has certainly not
improved the station's sound or listenability. The entire BBC News air staff
sounds as if they walk around all day with clothes pins on their noses. Of
all the BBC programs that WBUR carries, the only one that I find worth
listening to is "My Word," which I guess is a kind of latter-day incarnation
of the late 30s/early 40s US hit "Information Please."

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Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
eFax 707-215-6367

----- Original Message -----
From: Laurence Glavin <lglavin@lycos.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 5:29 PM
Subject: "Savvy Traveler" Waves Goodbye


> The NPR or PRI (I don't know which) program "The Savvy Traveler"
> will be ceasing production soon.  This opens up a 1-hour
> hole in the WBUR schedule.  I think an excellent replacement
> would be WNYC's "On the Media".  It was dropped during
> the onset of the Iraq incursion and not restored after
> regular programming resumed.  Now, I can listen to it
> Sundays on WEVO, but those out of NHPR range are out of luck,
> or can access an audio feed on www.npr.org.  So it doesn't
> matter to me if WBUR picks it up, but if any others
> enjoyed the program and would like it back on FM Channel
> 215, it might be a good idea to contact the station.
>
> Laurence Glavin
>
>
>
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