[Save_progressive_radio_boston] Re: WGBH buying WCRB-FM, turning it into a commercial-free classical station

[Laurence Glavin]

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Dan.Strassberg" 
>To: "A. Joseph Ross" , Save_progressive_radio_boston@yahoogroups.com 
>Cc: "boston radio e-mail list" 
>Subject: Re: [Save_progressive_radio_boston] Re: WGBH buying WCRB-FM, turning it into a commercial-free classical station 
>Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:11:33 -0400 

>But if you agree with one very vocal and insistent poster to both the 
>Progressive Talk and Boston Radio lists, WCRB hasn't played classical 
>music in decades. Although I do not agree with that poster, who 
>appears to want to impose his personal taste on all of WCRB's 
>listeners because he is sure he knows what is good for them, even if 
>they, themselves, do not, I gather that he is not alone in his 
>opinion. 

That position certainly is not mine, so you must be writing about someone else. 
I submit that the Boston-area audience (when WCRB was on 102.5) and the north-of- 
Boston-area audience would have been better served if WCRB was more like KING-FM 
in Seattle. When both were measured by diaries, each had pretty much the 
same rating 12+ anyway, so WCRB probably would not have lost anything by employing 
a more representative playlist. The fact that someone just heard WCRB airing a 
performance of the GRIEG (not 'Gregg) Piano Concerto is a hint of the problem. I 
searched the Archives at wcrb.com. and the September 23rd scheduling of this piece
was the FOURTH time in a month that's not over yet.  The chances are that the 
station hasn't scheduled either of Brahms's  2 Piano Concertos all year, each
of which is a staple of the concert repertory, at least in Symphony Hall or at
Tanglewood, so some people around here must like it.  Fun fact:  Berg's "Wozzeck"
is NOT a "Grand Opera"...check out wikipedia.org to discern the difference.


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