Comments on: The Classic Public Radio Battle

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:49:41 +0000

Yeah I gotta agree with Plasticnoodle there. Why should we be saving classic music on the radio? It’s free anywhere else. Libraries, online, other stations, you name it. NPR can bring us news, information, and entertainment developed and intended for public radio. You are dead wrong on this. We need programming, not classic music.

By: Plasticnoodle

Plasticnoodle — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 06:47:47 +0000

Good Public Radio? Hardly

Bloglanta: The Classic Public Radio Battle I’ve been in Atlanta for several years, but prior to that, I lived in St. Louis, with a kick-ass NPR affiliate. KWMU was one of the best NPR stations I’ve had the pleasure to…

By: teddyb

teddyb — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:35:25 +0000

I’m sorry but I, and I suspect most of Atlanta, just doesn’t need “six continuous hours of uninterrupted classical music” every day. I rely on NPR for objective news reporting and creative intelligent progamming like “This American Life.” With all that chamber music filling up the schedule, I don’t get to hear those programs.

But with the GOP trying to slant NPR to the right, I may not be so enthralled with NPR news. See http://mediamatters.org/handsoff/pr_20050523.html

Also, I have to admit that after reading in Creative Loafing a couple of years ago that WABE is more than self sufficient and that pledge drives really only raise money for the Altanta Public School System, I haven’t pledged. Not that I don’t think giving money to APS is bad, I just don’t like the deceit. (I was paying significant property taxes to APS for the last several years so there was some love there.)

By: C Riggins

C Riggins — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 01:54:06 +0000

I should point out that at least two other FM stations play classical music. WRAS 88.1 FM & WREK 91.1 FM (GSU’s station & Ga Tech’s station respectively, for those who may not know). Neither plays classical that much–Album 88 only 2 hours on Sunday morning, & WREK 2 hours every weekday morning.

It may not be much, but it’s better than nothing!

By: Joseph G

Joseph G — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 23:52:22 +0000

Atlanta’s radio situation is pretty bad, but just mirrors what’s going on in the rest of the country. Personally, I would like to see more talk, and more pop culture stuff as well. What I think is really sad is that this has to be an either/or thing. Most of Atlanta’s commercial FM stations are pretty crappy–one wishes that some of that bandwidth was available to be used for more NPR programming.

Perhaps when digital radio becomes widespread, we’ll have more feeds from WABE on the new, narrower frequencies.

By: chutney

chutney — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:39:05 +0000

I grew up in Oklahoma City, and depending on the weather and what part of town you were in, you could get three public radio stations. One of them was devoted to classical music. The other two were NPR and played jazz during the rare times when they didn’t have news programming.

It amazes me that Atlanta–probably ten times the size of OKC now—has to struggle with this. Seems like getting the money to implement your AM/FM solution shouldn’t be a problem.