Comments on: WABE’S New Schedule Will Not Conquer The World

By: Bloglanta » Blog Archive » WABE Ludites!

Bloglanta » Blog Archive » WABE Ludites! — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:44:57 +0000

[…] as the comments to various posts here have shown, people want the news and cutting off the HD stream is not going to help. WABE […]

By: jolomo

jolomo — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:46:18 +0000

I really like the AM-news FM-music idea. This change has definitely thrown off my daily routine in a bad way. I don’t want to hear “The World” at 3: it’s too serious. I used to hear that show in DC every day and didn’t really like it then; if we were going to get a new show I’d rather hear Talk of the Nation. Another proposal: nuke the 4pm ATC and make it Fresh Air at 3, Talk of the Nation (or The World) at 4, then ATC. I gotta get me an HD radio

By: Joseph

Joseph — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:24:10 +0000

I’ve been saying that WABE needs to dump the classical for a long time. At the very least, why not just broadcast it for the 3 hours from 9am to 12pm, and then put on some of the news and cultural programming that people living in the rest of the country get to hear.

I bought a new car, it does not have an HD radio, and I do not want to go through the added expense and unsightliness of adding an HD radio to it. I’d rather be able to have a real NPR station on the FM band.

By: Trackboy1

Trackboy1 — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:32:12 +0000

Do what NYC does: NPR talk on an AM station, and music on an FM station.

By: Teashook

Teashook — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:11:00 +0000

I guess there are some that like non-stop 6.5 hours of classical music. I’m not one of them and I daresay there are very very few of them out there. WABE’s programming in enraging.

By: BPJ

BPJ — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:00:30 +0000

Some of us actually love the classical music programming (though I agree the “Pipe Dreams” could be bumped to a later hour); I think WABE gets the balance right. Many US cities have no classical radio. Nonprofit radio exists to give us things the market doesn’t.

By: Dave C.

Dave C. — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:53:47 +0000

Why is it that we only have a part-time NPR/PRI station here anyway? Can’t the metro area justify a full day’s programming, even if you had to throw in BBC stuff as well?

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:27:38 +0000

I agree that their changes were bad for the same reasons. They also knocked off “City Arts and Lectures” on Mondays. WABE got this schedule shuffle wrong.

The daily variety that they used to have at the 7pm hour is now gone. We get the same stuff every day from 3 to 8pm. *YAWN*

and do we really need an HOUR AND A HALF of pipe dreams on Sunday Evenings? is there anyone on the entire planet who can listen to pipe organ music for that long? how about bumping Hearts of Space before midnight?