via BostonRadioBlog: article on classical changes on Cape Cod

[raccoonradio]

Via Boston Radio Blog: the article linked below is by one of the founders of
WFCC, who complains about the recent changes at the station --and he
wonders if new owners will ditch classical...

http://www.barnstablepatriot.com/gu...ouble_ahead_for_cape_radio_news_16_11700.html

"Now WFCC has been degraded and “darkened” to a “satellite” station." He also wonders if the possible
purchase of WFCC by Sandab Communications "could very probably result in the demise of Classical Music Radio on Cape Cod!"

 

[Laurence Glavin]

Well I learned something today. I thought Charles River Broadcasting put WFCC on-the-air, but it was really a gentleman named Joseph Ryan. (Who knew an Irishman would be interested in classical music on the radio?) Anyway, the article mentions an interim owner of WFCC, before Charles River took it over. I checked WFCC at wikipedia.org, but there was no info about this. After a check of WFCC's website, it appears that the WFCC of today is the WFCC that has been around for years, but Mr. Ryan seems to be saying that is only now in a state of decline. As currently operated, WFCC is of little or no value...there's WOMR 92.1 Provincetown (soon to add a rebroadcaster elsewhere on the Cape) which carries the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts , and Nantucket's WNCK, which simulcasts WGBH-FM. I understand the latter also operates translators, not currently simulcasting WGBH, but could do so if WFCC flips even its severely watered-down "classical" format. And since WGBH-FM continues to transmit from a site south of Boston with 100,000 watts (after considering a move to route 128) non-directional, many places on The Cape can pick it up directly.