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| S D... |
 Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:50 pm |
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Decades ago WNCN FM died . It was to classical music what the old AMC
and TCM were/are to movies. Recently The NY Times sold WQXR another
great classical station . WNYC bought the station but not the dial
position. The new signal ( from Newark) is so weak that many people in
Manhattan can't get it. I can , but the new website does not even list
what's going to be played. |
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| Tom... |
| Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:50 pm |
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On Oct 19, 4:50 pm, forn... at (no spam) webtv.net (S D) wrote:
Quote: Decades ago WNCN FM died . It was to classical music what the old AMC
and TCM were/are to movies. Recently The NY Times sold WQXR another
great classical station . WNYC bought the station but not the dial
position. The new signal ( from Newark) is so weak that many people in
Manhattan can't get it. I can , but the new website does not even list
what's going to be played.
Sadly, the last classical station in St. Louis, KFUO, was recently
sold.
It was owned by the Lutheran church and operated from Concordia
Seminary. They sold it to a fundamentalist religious radio group. They
currently own two stations in MO and neither plays classical music.
I'm hoping the new owners will continue the classical music on a
digital sub-channel or perhaps our NPR affiliate will do the same.
Tom  |
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| David Oberman... |
| Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 5:20 pm |
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forneon at (no spam) webtv.net (S D) wrote:
Quote: Decades ago WNCN FM died . It was to classical music what the old AMC
and TCM were/are to movies. Recently The NY Times sold WQXR another
great classical station . WNYC bought the station but not the dial
position. The new signal ( from Newark) is so weak that many people in
Manhattan can't get it. I can , but the new website does not even list
what's going to be played.
Only one classical station left in all of Los Angeles, & it's public.
Luckily, there are a bunch broadcasting on the Internet, including one
in England with a funny announcer. |
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| Steven L.... |
| Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 5:48 pm |
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David Oberman wrote:
Quote: forneon at (no spam) webtv.net (S D) wrote:
Decades ago WNCN FM died . It was to classical music what the old AMC
and TCM were/are to movies. Recently The NY Times sold WQXR another
great classical station . WNYC bought the station but not the dial
position. The new signal ( from Newark) is so weak that many people in
Manhattan can't get it. I can , but the new website does not even list
what's going to be played.
I grew up in New York City, and I remember WNCN and WQXR very well.
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Only one classical station left in all of Los Angeles, & it's public.
Luckily, there are a bunch broadcasting on the Internet, including one
in England with a funny announcer.
We've still got one left in Boston: WCRB-FM, and it's a fairly strong
station. Based in Waltham actually. I wake up to it every morning on
my clock radio.
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Steven L.
Email: sdlitvin at (no spam) earthlinkNOSPAM.net
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| tomcervo... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 2:56 pm |
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On Oct 19, 5:50 pm, forn... at (no spam) webtv.net (S D) wrote:
Quote: Decades ago WNCN FM died . It was to classical music what the old AMC
and TCM were/are to movies. Recently The NY Times sold WQXR another
great classical station . WNYC bought the station but not the dial
position. The new signal ( from Newark) is so weak that many people in
Manhattan can't get it. I can , but the new website does not even list
what's going to be played.
In central Michigan there's the MSU PBS station WKAR. The UM station
in Ann Arbor and all over went to (left wing) 24 hour talk-news years
ago. About that time Garrison Keillor wrote about a public station
that made the same change; when his hero complained, the station
manager said that people who want classical music can listen to their
CD's like everyone HE knew. That seems to be the underlying arrogance--
we must flood the air with left wing gasbags competing with the right
wing gas bags on AM radio, or the plebs will become politically
unreliable.
He also got in a few digs at All the Things We Wish You'd Consider,
and the Stalinist-regime longevity of some of the NPR reporters who
haven't seen the outside of the Beltway--always excepting The Cape--
since the last convention in fly-over country. I wouldn't mind seeing
all that cash going to PBS and NPR being diverted to the local
stations--let THEM decide who, or even if, they have for national
reporting, and let the locals gin up their own stuff. |
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| Jim Beaver... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:31 pm |
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"David Oberman" <doberman at (no spam) socal.rr.com> wrote in message
news:qrspd5t6ev8b22hcutiehvha09he4eaqr7 at (no spam) 4ax.com...
Quote: forneon at (no spam) webtv.net (S D) wrote:
Decades ago WNCN FM died . It was to classical music what the old AMC
and TCM were/are to movies. Recently The NY Times sold WQXR another
great classical station . WNYC bought the station but not the dial
position. The new signal ( from Newark) is so weak that many people in
Manhattan can't get it. I can , but the new website does not even list
what's going to be played.
Only one classical station left in all of Los Angeles, & it's public.
There are at least two. KUSC is all classical, while KCSN 88.5 has twelve
hours of classical music every weekday.
Jim Beaver |
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| S D... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 7:31 pm |
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WNCN classical first went off air in 1974 ( that living corpse Bill
Buckley was the cause..chairman of the board of a corpration that
controlled the station....a rich guy was giving big bucks to the station
when he was alive, when he died that stopped...when the news of the
station's upcoming demise was made public a million dollars was pledged
in one weekend to save the music..to no avail ) at that time a
publication FM Guide contained full listings for five NYC classical
stations : WNCN , WNYC, WQXR WKCR ( Columbia U.) and WFMU (Fordham).
When most of the stations chose to release their upcoming selections
only in their own publications F M Guide was gutted. Without knowledge
of what was to be played I listened a lot less often . WNCN did return
to a classical line up in 1975, but the old staff had cleaned out the
"can't be replaced" library and I think the hosts were different when
the format was reinstituted. I have a vague recollection that the new
incarnation was not as good as the early 70's version. |
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| The Giant Brain... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 7:37 pm |
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"S D" <forneon at (no spam) webtv.net> wrote in message
news:18731-4ADCDF28-8436 at (no spam) storefull-3251.bay.webtv.net...
Quote: Decades ago WNCN FM died . It was to classical music what the old AMC
and TCM were/are to movies. Recently The NY Times sold WQXR another
great classical station . WNYC bought the station but not the dial
position. The new signal ( from Newark) is so weak that many people in
Manhattan can't get it. I can , but the new website does not even list
what's going to be played.
I live out on the Island and get QXR on my clock radio but not on my stereo! Go
figure! |
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| S D... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:09 pm |
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does your stereo have an analog tuner, or buttons,a weak signal will be
passed over with buttons? Unlike my TV ( 19 inch analog ) my stereo
stuff is top drawer, tho of the old classic variety. Early 70's WNCN
ruled. |
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| David Oberman... |
| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:14 pm |
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forneon at (no spam) webtv.net (S D) wrote:
Quote: Me thinks the best way to go is out of the box...anyone with cable
should get another box go to Music Choice , the Classical Masterpieces
channel plays full length pieces 24/7. For those without a " home
theater " ( like me ) just get a patch cord to marry the coaxial to an
RCA plug and a coaxial to coaxial connecter then connect to your
receiver/amp and you're set. No schedule , but neither does WQXR.
Station is suckful before 8 PM ( as always ).
Internet radio rocks, too. I use Winamp to bookmark a whole bunch of
good stations, including classical & New Age Nirvana. |
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| S D... |
| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 9:31 pm |
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Music Choice also has a light classical station ( which is not so light
in comparison to the pap that QXR plays in the daytime ) MC also has
many excellent non-music channels. A better connection to home stereos
would be from the audio out jacks on a vcr or dvd player with the rca
plugs direct to the aux jacks. |
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