Boston is a Top 10 market again

[Laurence Glavin]

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Scott Fybush" 
>To: "Kevin Vahey" 
>Subject: Re: Boston is a Top 10 market again
>Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:56:41 -0500

>Take those numbers with at least a small grain of salt, only 
>because the counties between Buffalo and Rochester have a tendency 
>to flop back and forth between markets from year to year.
>Like Detroit, Buffalo has really become two markets - a 
>surprisingly affluent and vital ring of suburbs surrounding a 
>decaying central city. At that, there are more sparks of life in 
>the city of Buffalo right now than there are within Detroit city 
>limits.
>There's another thing about Buffalo that the numbers don't show: 
>the market feels bigger than Rochester in large part because of the 
>mammoth Golden Horseshoe of southern Ontario, from Niagara up to 
>Toronto, that's just across the river. Especially as the Canadian 
>dollar hangs in there above par, there's a steady stream of 
>commerce across the border. That's one big reason why they have an 
>NFL team and an NHL team (and almost landed an NL baseball team in 
>the eighties), and we have...er...the National Lacrosse League 
>champions.

It's a good thing for Buffalo that Scott is around to hype the City...unlike the
NY Times two months ago.  Then, they ran an article in the Sunday Arts Section 
about Marin Alsop, who had just assumed the music directorship of the
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.  The paper identified her as the FIRST woman to 
hold that office of a MAJOR U.S. symphony orchestra...then in parentheses, the
author noted that, yes indeed, Joann Falletta is a woman and the music director of 
the Buffalo Philharmonic, BUT that orchestra is not considered to be a MAJOR 
symphony orchestra!  I fully expected letters to the editor of the Times arts
section by Lukas Foss and/or Michael Tilson Thomas, both prominent American
musicians who had been Music Directors of the B.P.O. but none appeared!  BTW,
to relate this to radio, Marin Alsop appears frequently as a commentator on music
on NPR, principally on Weekend Edition/Saturday and Sunday.
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