Since we're naming radio stations which play good music, I'll throw in mine
which has been on the air for over 55 years:
WTJU Charlottesville, licensed to the University of Virginia, a
college/community station with shows in classical, rock, jazz and blues,
and folk. It is not affiliated with NPR or Pacifica, and airs almost all
local programming, except for some overnight slots and a one-hour community
affairs program on weekday mornings. I host a weekly 20th/21st century
contemporary classical music program called the Listening Room on Wednesday
nights (6-8 pm)*.
Typing at you after work hours.
Thom Pease
Cataloger by day
Charlottesville, VA
WTJU 91.1 FM
http://wtju.net/
* Yes, I know about Bob Sherman's show from New York City.
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Ward Duffield <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> WVKR-FM Vassar is good
> WPKN-FM Bridgeport is good
> esp. on a tube Grundig
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> On 7/3/2013 7:00 PM, Roger Kulp wrote:
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>> I like WFMT.I wish I had been able to hear them back in the 50s to the
>> early 80s.WQXR is still pretty good.I prefer either to KFDC.WFMU may still
>> be my favorite station overall.But of course I'm talking about streaming
>> over the web,not actually playing a radio.I have a bunch of radios and
>> tuners,I probably will never use,including an HH Scott tube tuner from
>> 1962.As everyone has said,radio is pretty much unlistenable these days.I do
>> admire these people who put all the time and money they do into restoring
>> old radios,but for what? To listen to FOX Sports,Glenn Beck,Lady Gaga,and
>> "Stairway To Heaven" for the 100,000,000,000,000th time? Roger > Date: Wed,
>> 3 Jul 2013 15:14:26 -0700> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re:
>> [ARSCLIST] Radio> To: [log in to unmask]> > Hopefully, Dennis,
>> I'll be able to grill my steaks to perfection, but if not, I'm sure
>> everybody will eat them with gusto and thankfulness. And Dennis, I'll be
>> able to listen to my local University supported FM OTR/streaming stations
>> from here in Northern California, Southern Oregon and via streaming FM from
>> San Francisco and Los Angeles. So, maybe we're seeing a trend of
>> educational institutions filling the gaps that were relinquished by
>> commercial stations. All of the stations I've mentioned have full-time
>> classical DJ's and amazingly, well educated personnel (what else coming
>> from Universities?) even during the necessary pledge breaks. How much more
>> democratic can we get in broadcasting than have listener support? I think
>> in our country, this kind of roots up support is the best of the American
>> pubic which perhaps proves that we're alive and well citizens keeping good
>> music alive, too. I'm not a Jazz fan as much as some members of the>
>> ARSCLIST, but I know that all types of music and commentary are available
>> on my dials, so to my ears, radio for me is alive and well. Additionally,
>> thanks to all of you, I have wonderful CD's and SACD's in case I get bored
>> with "over the air".> > Again, a happy and thankful Fourth of July to us
>> all!> > > ______________________________**__> From: Dennis Rooney <
>> [log in to unmask]>> To: [log in to unmask] > Sent:
>> Wednesday, July 3, 2013 10:00 AM> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Radio> > > I
>> suppose it's unsurprising that the eve of our greatest national holiday>
>> should bring posts with political opinions. More political discussion
>> ought> to characterize Independence Day; a in my own life, I have been
>> fortunate> to find others of like mind who prefer the exchange of ideas to
>> TV sports,> beer, badly grilled meats and overly sweetened macaroni
>> salads.> > The rapidity of the demise of all media as servants of the
>> public good has> been one of the most disheartening spectacles of my later
>> life. All the> adults seem to have left the room. I once worked in public
>> broadcasting and> believed in its mission to offer an alternative to the
>> commercial kind. For> a short time, the model worked, until the pursuit of
>> numbers (something> specifically rejected by founders of public
>> broadcasting) opened the> sluicegates of race-to-the-bottom programming
>> which has succeeded in making> NPR and PBS irrelevant to everyone. That
>> scandalous situation might be> worse were the persistence of over-the-air
>> broadcasting less unlikely.> Whatever its future evolution, I shall
>> remember radio as a shaping force on> my development even after it becomes
>> part of the past.> > A pleasant Independence Day to all.> > DDR> > On Wed,
>> Jul 3, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]>**wrote:>
>> > > Hi Ben:> >> > Back when I went through public school, not that long
>> ago, we had to> > thoroughly read and study the Constitution and
>> Declaration of Independence.> > I know that those older than I, now in
>> power, went through similarly good> > "civics" classes. Why all too many of
>> them forgot or choose to misuse what> > they learned is probably related to
>> greed and human-nature opportunism. Why> > so many people let them get away
>> with it is a mystery, all I can think is> > that too many people would
>> rather have coddling than liberty.> >> > I am very much and very proudly a
>> patriot, and I count my blessings as> > July 4 approaches. My great country
>> is not in its best phase right now, but> > I maintain American optimism,
>> that greater days are ahead. One thing I do> > know is that those greater
>> days will be brought to us by rugged> > individualists, not over-arching
>> command-down companies or governments.> >> > -- Tom Fine> >> > -----
>> Original Message ----- From: "James Roth" <[log in to unmask]>> > To: <
>> [log in to unmask]>> > Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 10:54 AM> >
>> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Radio> >> >> > Now, THERE's an intelligent,
>> enlightened patriot!!> >> Thank you!> >> Sincerely,> >> Ben Roth> >>> >>>
>> >> On Jul 3, 2013, at 9:48 AM, Tom Fine wrote:> >>> >> Uh, the Founding
>> Fathers INTENDED for a union of "50 squabbling> >> countries," so as to
>> avoid a tyrannical over-arching centralized> >> government. I would say
>> that the bigger problem of post-1932 times is that> >> we've gone way too
>> far afield of the Founding Fathers' vision and a> >> massive, multi-level,
>> intrusive and un-democratic government gets in the> >> way of individual
>> freedoms and initiatives. In an effort to "protect"> >> everyone from
>> themselves, the only result is to "protect" us from our own> >> liberty.
>> Worst of all, the megaglomerate government is more wasteful,> >> corrupt
>> and inefficient than any private enterprise (not that> >> megaglomerations
>> of private enterprise are efficient, honest or frugal).> >>> >> My big
>> take-away from modern life is that all mass "organizations" of> >> human
>> beings are good for is waging very destructive warfare. In any other> >>
>> enterprise, size is the enemy of intelligence and efficiency. So I'd much>
>> >> rather have 50 (or more) smaller groups of people trying different> >>
>> solutions to the same problems with the marketplace deciding which works>
>> >> best in each place.> >>> >> If I had been in charge, I would have never
>> allowed broadcast networks> >> under centralized ownership in the first
>> place, much less some sort of> >> "government sez it's good for you"
>> broadcast conglomerate. I'd have focused> >> on protecting individual
>> entities in each markets, but allowing them to> >> share content (ie
>> mutually fund programming, and everyone distribute it --> >> sort of like
>> network programming via affiliates) for a certain number of> >> their
>> broadcast hours every day. The rest of the hours would have to be> >>
>> hyper-focused on the local market. I'd also have required a local> >>
>> public-access component for every broadcast license (a reasonable number
>> of> >> hours each week must be handed over to locals who can produce their
>> own> >> programming, but the station is welcome to sell commercial time so
>> as to> >> make money off those hours). Under those rules, local owners
>> would have to> >> hone a localized business model to be profitable.> >>> >>
>> -- Tom Fine> >>> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donald Clarke" <
>> [log in to unmask]>> >> To: <[log in to unmask]>> >> Sent:
>> Wednesday, July 03, 2013 9:26 AM> >> Subject: [ARSCLIST] Radio> >>> >>> >>
>> The government handed broadcasting on a plate to commercial interests> >>>
>> right after WWI, and that's why it's mostly been a vast wasteland. There>
>> >>> aren't any record stores anywhere any more, but travelling in Europe in
>> the> >>> 1980s I heard Billie Holiday from the ceiling in a French
>> hypermarket (as> >>> opposed to the noisy trash in your nearest shopping
>> mall), and in every> >>> hilltop town in Tuscany there was a mom-and-pop
>> record shop that had the> >>> popcrock, both Italian and English-language,
>> but also decent selections of> >>> jazz and classical, because kids in
>> those countries grow up hearing it on> >>> their national radio stations,
>> whereas most people in the USA never hear> >>> any of either.> >>>> >>> And
>> speaking of 'national', the biggest American problem may be that we> >>>
>> are not a nation at all, but a loose union of 50 squabbling little> >>>
>> countries, so that the corporations can walk all over us.> >>>> >>> Donald
>> Clarke> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> > > -- > 1006 Langer Way> Delray Beach, FL 33483>
>> 212.874.9626
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