Fairbanks WKLB/WCLB & WCRB

[A Joseph Ross]

I am not a professional musician or "the like," whatever that means, and 
I complained.

WCRB rarely played the 9th symphony anyway.  It avoided choral music, 
except during the Christmas season.


On 1/17/2017 1:41 PM, Rob Landry wrote:
>
> They (we) got a lot of complaints, but they mostly came from 
> professional musicians and the like. Greater Boston has a *lot* of 
> professional and semi-professional musicians, but they are an 
> infinitessimal portion of the audience. After the initial wave of 
> complaints, Mario altered the format to allow more pieces to play in 
> their entirety, but he never stopped playing single movements. The 
> rationale was that as in any other format, we had to play the hits, 
> and they had to be playable in morning and afternoon drive.
>
> The most extreme case was Beethoven's ninth symphony. To play that in 
> its entirety takes more than an hour, and that's a lot of commercial 
> avails to give up.
>
> In the end, the more complaints we got, the the more the Globe and 
> Herald took pot shots at us, and the higher our ratings went. In 
> radio, there's almost no such thing as bad publicity.
>
>
> Rob
>
>
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2017, A Joseph Ross wrote:
>
>> My recollection was that WCRB got a lot of complaints, and even 
>> admitted on the air that the practice of playing single movements was 
>> unpopular
>> among listeners, and they discontinued it.
>>
>>
>> On 1/15/2017 2:42 AM, Don Astelle wrote:
>>
>>       >>I already heard it back then, and I didn't like it.<<
>>
>> You and the late Laurence Glavin both!
>>
>>
>>
>> _____________________________
>> From: A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2017 11:53 PM
>> Subject: Re: Fairbanks WKLB/WCLB & WCRB
>> To: Don <astelle.donald@gmail.com>, Rob Landry 
>> <011010001@interpring.com>
>> Cc: Ron Bello <rbello@belloassoc.com>, 
>> <boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
>>
>>
>> I already heard it back then, and I didn't like it.
>>
>>
>> On 1/14/2017 4:26 PM, Rob Landry wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sat, 14 Jan 2017, Don wrote:
>> >
>> >> Actually, during this incarnation of Country on 105.7, Classical
>> >> WCRB started doing VERY well in the ratings. This is when Matio was
>> >> running CRB and they were playing "movements" in a somewhat Top 40
>> >> style rotation.
>> >
>> > They were playing the same format as WFCC and WCRI do today. See
>> > http://classical959.com to hear it.
>> >
>> >
>> > Rob
>> >
>>
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