WETA flips again
Jan. 23rd, 2007 09:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisDC has two NPR stations: WAMU and WETA. For many years, WAMU had a news & information line-up while WETA was primarily a classical music station. Back in February of 2005, WETA dropped its classical music programs in favour of news, effectively duplicating many of the programs which WAMU was offering. I was a little miffed at the time, as I suspected that the two stations would split the NPR audience sufficiently to endanger both of them.
As of today, WETA has flipped back from news to classical. Apparently, the remaining classical music commercial station has updated their playlist so their music library and even some staff are being given to WETA in a deal to ensure a classical program stays in the greater Washington DC area.
For my own selfish purposes, this is close to the ideal solution. The only thing I could ask for is that WAMU, my preferred station, had a more powerful signal and thus a greater listening range.
Click for the Washington Post article.
As of today, WETA has flipped back from news to classical. Apparently, the remaining classical music commercial station has updated their playlist so their music library and even some staff are being given to WETA in a deal to ensure a classical program stays in the greater Washington DC area.
For my own selfish purposes, this is close to the ideal solution. The only thing I could ask for is that WAMU, my preferred station, had a more powerful signal and thus a greater listening range.
Click for the Washington Post article.
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Date: 2007-01-23 03:47 pm (UTC)Here in Seattle, we have a long running classical FM station, I think classical that for years was owned and may still be owned by the Bullitt family. Dorothy, now deceased began the station back in the late 40's and still plays classical music to this day and it's the station my Mom listens to. It's the only one in our area that does I think.
We also have two NPR stations. One concentrates on NPR/PRI programming, the other does some NPR/PRI programming but concentrates primarily on older Jazz (John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk etc) but also does some Blues in there too and some other genres as programs for variety. It's a college training station down east of my hometown. The all news NPR is up here and is I think still owned by the UW.
We also have 2 PBS stations, one of which is a training facility owned by the state community college system that I attended years ago and another one that's not and is out top tier PBS station and it's here in Seattle. At one point, we had 3 PBS stations, one of which was at another tech college but has been gone now for roughly 25 years or so now. Both have totally different programming but there is some overlap in some programs however.
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Date: 2007-01-23 06:19 pm (UTC)