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The "Athens Of America" ;-( With No Classical Music Station ?

Re: The case for intervening in the 102.5 situation

Outstanding!!!
I only wish I could have said it as well.
Your reply is sort of the Gettysburg Address for Classical Music on Radio.
Thank you.
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> You're exactly right. Loosing WCRB is completely, utterly
> asinine. What a huge blow for Boston. Can you imagine
> Symphony Hall being torn down for a fast food outlet? This
> is the same thing here.
>
> You know, being an architect, I find it interesting that we
> can, as a society, place legally-binding historical
> designations upon culturally-valuable buildings to prevent
> them from being irradicated by short term greed. If
> architecture is frozen music, and that can be preserved, why
> shouldn't we preserve our conduit for outstanding "liquid"
> music, fine arts radio? If we can prevent a building from
> being torn down, why can't we hold on to culturally-valuable
> radio?
>
> Some may have the urge to reply to this post that radio is
> "of the moment" and that "there are larger audience
> unserved" etc. Here's why that doesn't hold up for this
> case: firstly, almost all other stations are playing "of
> the moment" music. WCRB is playing music that has withstood
> as much as three hundred years of time. This isn't a case
> of classic music having gone out of style--it's never out of
> style. And, of course, the ratings are there.
>
> The argument about 102.5 format being "private property" is
> inherently false. These are public airwaves. If we can
> regulate the aesthetic content of buildings in Back Bay,
> their beauty transmitted to our eyes thru the public air by
> waves of light, then the Boston public should have control
> over the waves of sound that bring them the aesthetics of
> their culturally sustainable radio station.
>
> The argument about 102.5 "not making as much money as it
> could" is unsound as well, when you consider how much one
> could make by lining the Charles River with high-rise
> condos...yet we don't allow it, for the common aesthetic
> good. We, as well as future generations, should all have an
> opportunity to enjoy Boston's beauty, and WCRB is as much an
> integral part of that as is the Esplanade on a Fourth of
> July night.
>
 
Re: Mozart Was Black !

You may be a Martian ;-) and I will take you to our leader...oh no ! that would be too traumatizing... but some make the assertion that Ol' Wolfy was a soul brother.
Do a Google search on it.

> And I'm a Martian! ;-)
>
> (Not to be closed-minded or anything; maybe I should look
> into that allegation of Mozart being black, just to be
> sure.)
>
> > According to some Black historians Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
>
> > was Black.
> > No kidding, not a racist remark by this poster. Check it
> > out.
> >
> > > > > "The real male-targetting stations are the talk
> > > stations,
> > > > > the sports outlets, WZLX, WBCN, WAAF and WFNX"
> > > > >
> > > > > According to this logic, which I've seen before,
> > > non-white
> > > >
> > > > > men don't listen to the radio!
> > > >
> > > > Considering that the Boston market is about 6%
> Hispanic
> > > and
> > > > 6% African American, I'm covering the stereotypical
> > > > preferences of 88% of men in the market.
> > > >
> > > That being said, I have to disagree. Young Caucasian men
>
> > are
> > > not listening to rock. That's why WBCN's numbers are
> > > sinking. And WFNX? That's a female station if there
> ever
> > > was one.
> > >
> > > The young men like hip hop. I don't know why! I think
> > it's
> > > mostly crap. But as someone else said in this forum,
> hip
> > > hop today is what rock was to a different generation.
> > >
> >
>
 
SAVE 'CRB!

Remember all those SAVE FENWAY stickers (I think one is still sitting in Park Street?) why not do the same for 'CRB?

I think your architecture analogy is PERFECT! Let's start the ball rolling on this one! Start distributing those green SAVE WCRB stickers right away!

(Just wish I was in Boston to help...)

> You're exactly right. Loosing WCRB is completely, utterly
> asinine. What a huge blow for Boston. Can you imagine
> Symphony Hall being torn down for a fast food outlet? This
> is the same thing here.
>
> You know, being an architect, I find it interesting that we
> can, as a society, place legally-binding historical
> designations upon culturally-valuable buildings to prevent
> them from being irradicated by short term greed. If
> architecture is frozen music, and that can be preserved, why
> shouldn't we preserve our conduit for outstanding "liquid"
> music, fine arts radio? If we can prevent a building from
> being torn down, why can't we hold on to culturally-valuable
> radio?
>
> Some may have the urge to reply to this post that radio is
> "of the moment" and that "there are larger audience
> unserved" etc. Here's why that doesn't hold up for this
> case: firstly, almost all other stations are playing "of
> the moment" music. WCRB is playing music that has withstood
> as much as three hundred years of time. This isn't a case
> of classic music having gone out of style--it's never out of
> style. And, of course, the ratings are there.
>
> The argument about 102.5 format being "private property" is
> inherently false. These are public airwaves. If we can
> regulate the aesthetic content of buildings in Back Bay,
> their beauty transmitted to our eyes thru the public air by
> waves of light, then the Boston public should have control
> over the waves of sound that bring them the aesthetics of
> their culturally sustainable radio station.
>
> The argument about 102.5 "not making as much money as it
> could" is unsound as well, when you consider how much one
> could make by lining the Charles River with high-rise
> condos...yet we don't allow it, for the common aesthetic
> good. We, as well as future generations, should all have an
> opportunity to enjoy Boston's beauty, and WCRB is as much an
> integral part of that as is the Esplanade on a Fourth of
> July night.
>
 
> Actually, Christopher Jones of the Ted Jones family will be
> retaining both WCRI and WCNX, along with the World Classical
> Network. WCRI doesn't touch anywhere near Boston...

Actually, occasionally it does, but only during summer "troppo" season.

At those times, it's been known to skip up and cause interference to WATD in Marshfield all over the greater Boston inland suburbs, away from the coastal South Shore.
 
Re: Non white men

> > "The real male-targetting stations are the talk stations,
> > the sports outlets, WZLX, WBCN, WAAF and WFNX"
> >
> > According to this logic, which I've seen before, non-white
>
> > men don't listen to the radio!
> >
>
> Neither do geezers (I'm being facetious) over the age of 50!
>
Excellent observation!
 
Re: The case for intervening in the 102.5 situation

The problem with intervention is that the stockholders deserve a fair price for the sale of their property, and any attempt to restrict the buyer to a classical format would dramatically reduce the market value of WCRB.
The federal government is the sole authority that could intervene, and it won't.

That leaves only one possibility: fidning another local broadcaster to do classical. There is a rumor that the former owner (and seller) of WTMI, Miami might buy WCRB's identity and set up another station as "WCRB" -- but, of course, without the WCRB staff, and almost certainly without being able to cover the whole Boston area. His current WTMI, in Hartford, is a low-powered AM.
 
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