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Ladies And Gentlemen, Meet The "Save WDUQ" Group

Too bad the FCC doesn't regulate formats. "Jazz Lives" should instead use that energy to promote HD radio. They'll have their jazz on WDUQ-HD2
 
My money says that 90.5 FM HD2 will be 24/7 JazzWorks service. Agree?
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
My money says that 90.5 FM HD2 will be 24/7 JazzWorks service. Agree?
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Totally agree. That's another reason why people don't want to hear it from the "but you still have all the jazz you need on HD!" crowd - because the local hosts are more than likely getting the boot.
 
Jazz lovers can always pool their money to buy WLFP
 
I don't think the FCC steps in, in situations like this. Interesting things can happen though, like in the late 70s in Boston where a group formed to protest the dropping of country music on WCOP AM/FM, and a group of country fans (it was the only such station in town) tried to get the FCC
to deny WCOP's license (renewal?). There was an out of court settlement where WCOP owner Plough agreed to buy time on another station, WDLW, where country could be run (eventually it would go country full time, then drop it when an FM in town picked up country). Anyway the FCC
didn't force WCOP to change its decision about a format change, but apparently WCOP owners
made the deal to place country elsewhere to make the license-challengers go away.

http://lists.bostonradio.org/bri/v02/msg05540.html
>>(WAVES Magazine, 1979):The current programming on WDLW is the result of a settlement agreement
between CCA and Plough Broadcasting Company, the former owner of WCOP:
CCA has dropped its license challenges against Plough, and Plough is
helping to sponsor the country block on WDLW.

In Boston a Facebook group exists for those who objected to pubcaster WGBH dropping long-running blues and folk shows for news, etc. So far, no results.
 
Save DUQ leader admits it's a longshot, and Funny Cookie Company says they're not in the format regulation business.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ae/music/s_740857.html

>>(Evan Pattak, Jazz Lives): "...we've asked them to intervene because the circumstances are unusual.".....
"We do not regulate content," Ms. Wise (FCC spokesperson) said of the FCC. "It's the licensee's decision to regulate content, not the FCC's. It would have to be a particular violation of FCC regulation
 
raccoonradio said:
IIn Boston a Facebook group exists for those who objected to pubcaster WGBH dropping long-running blues and folk shows for news, etc. So far, no results.
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Many of the same people have also been trying to get U of Mass.-owned WUMB to go back to a 24/7 folk music format after going AAA a few years ago. No success (WUMB's getting the same numbers it got as a folk station, but I'm sure that their demos and median age isn't as decrepit as when they were folk). They've also teamed up with some disgruntled Austin, TX people who tried to keep KUT from formatting their music shows (no success and KUT's one of Austin's top-rated stations) to start a blog called Keeping Public Radio Public, where they mostly bitch about NPR stations kicking music off completely or on HD channels (that "HD Radio Farce" guy Greg, who's been kicked off of every radio board extant, contributes to their blog) or college stations being sold to pubcasters to no avail, as in Houston, San Francisco and now in Nashville. You'd think they'd know enough to quit.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
Jazz lovers can always pool their money to buy WLFP...
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These "Jazz Lives" folks can easily attempt to do that behind the scenes and not become opportunists at the expense of the FCC transfer of WDUQ... why can't some people just let nature take its course? Did a "Man Zone Lives" group spring up when CBS announced they were axing the FM talk format on 93.7?
 
DToTheJ said:
FreddyE1977 said:
Jazz lovers can always pool their money to buy WLFP...
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These "Jazz Lives" folks can easily attempt to do that behind the scenes and not become opportunists at the expense of the FCC transfer of WDUQ... why can't some people just let nature take its course? Did a "Man Zone Lives" group spring up when CBS announced they were axing the FM talk format on 93.7?
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The difference there is that listeners didn't DONATE MONEY to keep the man zone on the air. The Man Zone also wasn't replacing a format that had the highest listenership among stations of its ilk (i.e. WDUQ with the jazz format has the highest listenerhip of the public radio stations in the city).
 
DToTheJ said:
Did a "Man Zone Lives" group spring up when CBS announced they were axing the FM talk format on 93.7?
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Maybe the fact that no group sprung up to protest the "losss" of the Man Zone indicates how successful the format was.
 
Kurt Toy said:
The loss or reduction of jazz will be inconvenient to those who don't have computers or satellite radio.
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Yeah, let's program to those people.

dB said:
Did a "Man Zone Lives" group spring up when CBS announced they were axing the FM talk format on 93.7?
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Actually I think several groups sprang up to thank CBS for killing it.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
And now they are organizing a membership boycott.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11161/1152812-100.stm

I take it back. The "heck no we won't go" folks on WKRP
now seem sane by comparison.
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Why does this seem insane? A subsidiary of WYEP is behind this change. The group is voting with their pocketbooks - no more donation $$ for WYEP. They may be surprised by how many donations they lose. They're not getting any more money from me, and I've been a member for years.
 
The bet that they're taking is that every dollar they lose from teed-off jazz fans will be replaced several times over by money from new listeners attracted to a more consistent 24/7 news-talk format. The evidence from other markets where similar flips have taken place suggests it's probably a pretty solid bet.

Unfortunately, there's lots of empirical data that shows that of the four most common public radio formats (news-talk, classical, jazz and AAA), jazz listeners are by far the least willing to support the programming with membership dollars. It's too bad, since WDUQ was one of the best public-radio jazz outlets going...but if the money's not there to support it, and if Duquesne wasn't going to sell 90.5 to the management team, what's the alternative?
 
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