> I'm guessing this might be
> the show:
>
> http://annarborchronicle.com/2008/11/09/a-golden-age-of-jazz-revisited/
>
>
> A Golden Age
> of Jazz Revisited
> BY HAZEN SCHUMACHER
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5MZ4XD_AIc
>
> Used to listen 'until I
> went out and bought the records that I liked.'
>
>
> Gene
>
--- On Sun, 5/25/14, eugene hayhoe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: eugene hayhoe <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Fw: Re: [ARSCLIST] Public radio was Re: Future of CDs
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Sunday, May 25, 2014, 12:25 PM
>
> > I'm guessing this might be
> > the show:
> >
> > http://annarborchronicle.com/2008/11/09/a-golden-age-of-jazz-revisited/
> >
> >
> > A Golden Age
> > of Jazz Revisited
> > BY HAZEN SCHUMACHER
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5MZ4XD_AIc
> >
> > Used to listen 'until I
> > went out and bought the records that I liked.'
> >
> >
> > Gene
> >
>
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>
> --- On Sun, 5/25/14, eugene hayhoe <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > From: eugene hayhoe <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Public radio was Re: Future of
> CDs
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Date: Sunday, May 25, 2014, 9:09 AM
> > " I wish I could
> > recall the name of that came
> > > from one
> > of the public radio networks and, each week, featured
> > vintage jazz
> > > and big band recordings -
> > I recall one whole episode was just devoted to
> > > V-Discs"
> >
> >
> > --------------------------------------------
> > On Sun, 5/25/14, Frank Strauss <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST]
> > Public radio was Re: Future of CDs
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Date: Sunday, May 25, 2014, 12:15 AM
> >
> > I also like the ability
> > to change genre of music with SiriusXM. The
> > OTR
> > station definitely isn't
> > particularly
> > enlightened, but given good
> > fortune
> > in the
> > luck of the
> > programming draw, it can sure help a long car
> > trip be
> > more enjoyable. I
> > force my wife to
> > negotiate with them every
> > year to get a
> > better rate. She out did
> > herself this
> > year-the full version for both
> > of
> > our cars
> > for $100 a
> > year each. I used to give more than that to the
> > local
> > FM Classical NPR
> > station. I went
> > over and manned a phone
> > during pledge
> > time. Now it seems like
> > almost every week
> > they take away the music
> > so they
> > can have a
> > fund
> > raising event. No doubt they are doing a Memorial
> Day
> > fund
> > raiser. They do
> > Mother's Day and
> > Valentine's Day
> > and Christmas and
> > Thanksgiving, and God
> > knows what else. The
> > scripted repetitive
> > nonsense
> > they broadcast
> >
> > during these events makes one assume they think we are
> > all
> > morons. If you added up
> > all the
> > regular full Monty fund drives,
> > the
> > special
> > event fund
> > drives and the 10 second commercials, there is
> > far more
> > down time, with
> > little or no music,
> > than any of the
> > commercial stations.
> > Both of
> > the local NPR stations make you listen to 20
> > seconds of
> > commercial
> >
> > every time you tune in the
> > streaming
> > version. I often wondered if the
> > FM
> > stations couldn't let me pay an
> > annual fee, and then allow me to listen
> > without the fundraising drivel. Maybe
> > something that accesses the extra
> > band
> > width, like their
> > service for the visually impaired. I
> > have
> > also
> > wished that they would spend less
> > money on their syndicated programming,
> > and
> > just play classical
> > music, maybe from their own library,
> > like
> > they used
> > to. Interesting to note that
> > Robert Aubry Davis, one of the XM Sirius
> > Symphony Hall announcers, used to be at our
> > local station in upstate New
> >
> > York. I am very
> > pessimistic about the
> > future of classical FM in my area,
> > and I
> > guess I wouldn't miss them much.
> > Too
> > bad.
> >
> >
> >
> > On
> > Sat, May 24, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Randy A.
> > Riddle <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> >
> > > I listened to public
> > radio for many years. I think what happened
> > was that
> > > it lost track of its original
> > vision to
> > educate.
> > >
> > > The
> > public radio
> > stations in my area are basically running many
> > of the same
> > > talk or
> > music series that
> > have been around since
> > the 1980s. There doesn't
> > > seem to
> > be anything there I've not
> > heard before
> > or seen around the
> > >
> >
> > Internet.
> > >
> > > For
> > me,
> > public radio was at its best in the
> > 1970s when it acted as a
> > kind
> > > of curator for the best or most
> > interesting in what was happening in
> > >
> > serious music or the
> > arts. It was the place you would turn
> > to
> > to hear new
> > > classical works or new
> > recordings of classical music, experiments in
> > radio
> > > drama, or what was happening in
> > music
> > scholarship.
> > >
> > > A
> > good example is a
> > weekly show I wish I could recall the name
> >
> > of that came
> > > from one of the public
> > radio networks and, each week, featured
> > vintage jazz
> > > and big band recordings -
> > I recall one
> > whole episode was just devoted
> > to
> > >
> > V-Discs.
> > >
> > > At other
> > times, my local public radio stations featured
> > regular
> > broadcasts
> > > of
> > classic Old Time Radio -
> > Suspense, the
> > Great Gildersleeve, Jack Benny
> > > and
> > other programs.
> > >
> > >
> > Sure, much of this
> > material is available
> > now on the Internet or satellite
> > > radio
> > stations. Public radio could find
> > its
> > voice again by being a curator
> > > and
> > gateway into what's worth my time, rather
> > than being
> > either background
> > > classical Muzak for a
> >
> > day at the office or offering the "comfort
> > food"
> > of
> > >
> > "Prairie Home
> > Companion".
> > It's just stale.
> > >
> >
> > > I like Sirius XM
> > because it allows me
> > to sample genres of music that I
> > >
> > don't know much about or listen deeper
> >
> > into a genre catalogue to figure out
> >
> > >
> > what I might like or not like - the
> > same thing that public
> > and college
> > > radio used to do for me
> >
> > many years ago.
> > >
> >
> > >
> > The OTR channel is a little
> > conservative for my taste,
> > repeating many
> > of
> > > the same "war
> >
> > horses" that I've heard many times before, but
> > at
> > least it's
> > >
> > something.
> > >
> > >
> > Randy
> > >
> > >
> > --
> >
> > Frank B
> > Strauss, DMD
> >
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