All this speculation on the WCRB sale being overturned can perhaps be discarded if the Boston Radio Watch is right. WCRB's revenue figure for the year just past was 7.5 million, down from 2004's figure of 8.4 million. Therefore the South Street Snoozer is trending downward towards NON-PROFITABILITY! If there ever was a time for the Charles River, um, "brain" trust to cash in, this it it!
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Boston Radio Watch On WCRB's Revenue
- Thread starter Shellanswerman
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> All this speculation on the WCRB sale being overturned can
> perhaps be discarded if the Boston Radio Watch is right.
> WCRB's revenue figure for the year just past was 7.5
> million, down from 2004's figure of 8.4 million. Therefore
> the South Street Snoozer is trending downward towards
> NON-PROFITABILITY! If there ever was a time for the Charles
> River, um, "brain" trust to cash in, this it it!
>
Of course, if YOU'D been programming WCRB, with your preferred format of full-length atonal operas 24/7, the station's revenues would have dropped to zero almost from the moment you took over.
I guess you just can't get that not everyone who listens to classical music wants to devote the effort to listening that you do, and that most people who listen to classical music on the radio are merely seeking entertainment. They obiously don't know what's good for them. Have you noticed how many restaurants have made a go of a menu restricted to raw broccoli and alfalfa sprouts? Good for you, yeah, but not what most people like--except in limited doses.
From your point of view, it seems, no classical music on the radio is better than classical music that doesn't meet your standards. But do you honestly believe that anyone besides you would listen to classical music that met your standards?
> perhaps be discarded if the Boston Radio Watch is right.
> WCRB's revenue figure for the year just past was 7.5
> million, down from 2004's figure of 8.4 million. Therefore
> the South Street Snoozer is trending downward towards
> NON-PROFITABILITY! If there ever was a time for the Charles
> River, um, "brain" trust to cash in, this it it!
>
Of course, if YOU'D been programming WCRB, with your preferred format of full-length atonal operas 24/7, the station's revenues would have dropped to zero almost from the moment you took over.
I guess you just can't get that not everyone who listens to classical music wants to devote the effort to listening that you do, and that most people who listen to classical music on the radio are merely seeking entertainment. They obiously don't know what's good for them. Have you noticed how many restaurants have made a go of a menu restricted to raw broccoli and alfalfa sprouts? Good for you, yeah, but not what most people like--except in limited doses.
From your point of view, it seems, no classical music on the radio is better than classical music that doesn't meet your standards. But do you honestly believe that anyone besides you would listen to classical music that met your standards?
> > All this speculation on the WCRB sale being overturned can
>
> > perhaps be discarded if the Boston Radio Watch is right.
> > WCRB's revenue figure for the year just past was 7.5
> > million, down from 2004's figure of 8.4 million.
> Therefore
> > the South Street Snoozer is trending downward towards
> > NON-PROFITABILITY! If there ever was a time for the
> Charles
> > River, um, "brain" trust to cash in, this it it!
> >
> Of course, if YOU'D been programming WCRB, with your
> preferred format of full-length atonal operas 24/7, the
> station's revenues would have dropped to zero almost from
> the moment you took over.
>
> I guess you just can't get that not everyone who listens to
> classical music wants to devote the effort to listening that
> you do, and that most people who listen to classical music
> on the radio are merely seeking entertainment. They obiously
> don't know what's good for them. Have you noticed how many
> restaurants have made a go of a menu restricted to raw
> broccoli and alfalfa sprouts? Good for you, yeah, but not
> what most people like--except in limited doses.
>
This post is literally INSANE...that is totally unhinged from reality. How many times have I cited the MODERATE and REASONABLE programming on KING-FM in Seattle (more about that in a trice), WFMT, WCLV at times, and WQXR at times? You don't know how I spend my money and free time...here are two examples: this past Sunday I went to the Boston Conservatory concert at Sanders Theater in Cambridge to hear Dawn Upshaw sing some of Canteloube's "Chants d'Auverne". Go to the nearest well-stocked library, check out a CD of same and see if it's avante-garde. Two weeks earlier I went to hear the Boston Chamber Music Society play the Beethoven String Quartet #13, the most accessible of the grouping 11-12-13-14&15 (16 is also very accessible and I heard that a year ago).
I'm just back from buying tickets to this Saturday night's Boston Symphony Orchestra performance of the Berlioz "Requiem"...don't worry, "Requiems" are not all dull, in this case it will be an orchestral spectacular PLUS it is the kind of piece that can use Symphony Hall as a performance venue to full effect. Hey...for a change, get out of the house, go Thurday night and buy a "rush" seat for EIGHT DOLLARS and check it our for yourself. Even if you wind up disliking the piece, you'll know you were in the presence of something extraordinary. ("Rush" seats go on sale at 5:00 pm, the line forms earlier in the afternoon so you'd have get there earlier...it's so repellently avant-garde that a sell-out is assured). Oh, about KING-FM...they're taking a leaf from the Robert J. Lurtsema's book and featuring a composer of the month. This seems to keep them from playing segments from longer works for now (an unpardonable sin); Haydn (pronouced HIGH-din) is April's composer...I wonder if they'll choose Stravinsky one month. But still, KING-FM offers mainstream
20th Century music at various times of the day when people are actually listening...and comparatively litte 18th- and early 19th-Century dreck (yes some music described as "classical" is dreck because it's almost never performed in public, and on Amazon.com. nobody ever offers any comments about it, yet WCRB, KDFC and the soon-to-be-defunct WGMS play it to death.) And if you check Randio&Records, KING-FM achieves a 12+ rating very similar to WCRB's in a similar market and WITH a so-called "Smooth Jazz" outlet that seeks the same kind of listener, although KING-FM listeners probable actually listen!
>
> > perhaps be discarded if the Boston Radio Watch is right.
> > WCRB's revenue figure for the year just past was 7.5
> > million, down from 2004's figure of 8.4 million.
> Therefore
> > the South Street Snoozer is trending downward towards
> > NON-PROFITABILITY! If there ever was a time for the
> Charles
> > River, um, "brain" trust to cash in, this it it!
> >
> Of course, if YOU'D been programming WCRB, with your
> preferred format of full-length atonal operas 24/7, the
> station's revenues would have dropped to zero almost from
> the moment you took over.
>
> I guess you just can't get that not everyone who listens to
> classical music wants to devote the effort to listening that
> you do, and that most people who listen to classical music
> on the radio are merely seeking entertainment. They obiously
> don't know what's good for them. Have you noticed how many
> restaurants have made a go of a menu restricted to raw
> broccoli and alfalfa sprouts? Good for you, yeah, but not
> what most people like--except in limited doses.
>
This post is literally INSANE...that is totally unhinged from reality. How many times have I cited the MODERATE and REASONABLE programming on KING-FM in Seattle (more about that in a trice), WFMT, WCLV at times, and WQXR at times? You don't know how I spend my money and free time...here are two examples: this past Sunday I went to the Boston Conservatory concert at Sanders Theater in Cambridge to hear Dawn Upshaw sing some of Canteloube's "Chants d'Auverne". Go to the nearest well-stocked library, check out a CD of same and see if it's avante-garde. Two weeks earlier I went to hear the Boston Chamber Music Society play the Beethoven String Quartet #13, the most accessible of the grouping 11-12-13-14&15 (16 is also very accessible and I heard that a year ago).
I'm just back from buying tickets to this Saturday night's Boston Symphony Orchestra performance of the Berlioz "Requiem"...don't worry, "Requiems" are not all dull, in this case it will be an orchestral spectacular PLUS it is the kind of piece that can use Symphony Hall as a performance venue to full effect. Hey...for a change, get out of the house, go Thurday night and buy a "rush" seat for EIGHT DOLLARS and check it our for yourself. Even if you wind up disliking the piece, you'll know you were in the presence of something extraordinary. ("Rush" seats go on sale at 5:00 pm, the line forms earlier in the afternoon so you'd have get there earlier...it's so repellently avant-garde that a sell-out is assured). Oh, about KING-FM...they're taking a leaf from the Robert J. Lurtsema's book and featuring a composer of the month. This seems to keep them from playing segments from longer works for now (an unpardonable sin); Haydn (pronouced HIGH-din) is April's composer...I wonder if they'll choose Stravinsky one month. But still, KING-FM offers mainstream
20th Century music at various times of the day when people are actually listening...and comparatively litte 18th- and early 19th-Century dreck (yes some music described as "classical" is dreck because it's almost never performed in public, and on Amazon.com. nobody ever offers any comments about it, yet WCRB, KDFC and the soon-to-be-defunct WGMS play it to death.) And if you check Randio&Records, KING-FM achieves a 12+ rating very similar to WCRB's in a similar market and WITH a so-called "Smooth Jazz" outlet that seeks the same kind of listener, although KING-FM listeners probable actually listen!
He apparently doesn't listen to WHRB, which plays more opera than all the other Boston stations together; nor does he seem to have an HD radio, which would let him hear the two new classical stations in town. I fear Mr. Glavin's principal purpose in life is to be WCRB's detractor, and wonder what he's going to do after September, when there will be no more WCRB.
Perhaps he wants to move to southern Rhode Island; I hear that not only will Mario Mazza's format stay on the air there after the sale, but it's now the number one radio station in Washington County according to Arbitron. Clearly there's a vast horde of unwashed that need educating as to what "real" classical music radio is.
Perhaps he wants to move to southern Rhode Island; I hear that not only will Mario Mazza's format stay on the air there after the sale, but it's now the number one radio station in Washington County according to Arbitron. Clearly there's a vast horde of unwashed that need educating as to what "real" classical music radio is.
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