Comments on: What Mozart and the Death of Newspapers Have in Common: WQXR Sold http://www.mediaite.com/online/what-mozart-and-the-death-of-newspapers-have-in-common-wqxr-sold/ Mediaite Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:57:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=2012.06 By: RonMwangaguhunga http://www.mediaite.com/online/what-mozart-and-the-death-of-newspapers-have-in-common-wqxr-sold/#comment-260 RonMwangaguhunga Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:00:51 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=1983#comment-260 interns = interned. interns = interned.

]]> By: RonMwangaguhunga http://www.mediaite.com/online/what-mozart-and-the-death-of-newspapers-have-in-common-wqxr-sold/#comment-258 RonMwangaguhunga Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:51:04 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=1983#comment-258 I interns at WNCN, the other NY classical station years ago during college. This effectively means that New York -- the cultural capital of the US -- has no regular classical music station. *shudders* Beyond from the classical music angle, terrestrial radio is a total wasteland except for NPR and -- maybe -- Air America (sometimes). Why is there so much traditional music on the radio when there is so much more online? Why would anyone want to do traditional music on terrestrial radio in the age of internet radio, iPods, cable, the web, mobile, etc, &c. It seems to me that the only formula that could compate with the web is an original rebel radio type like Howard Stern that could comply with FCC regulations. And yet who is on traditional radio? Don Imus? Rush Limbaugh? Top 40? "Hard Rock"? Who is programming this stuff? Grampa? I interns at WNCN, the other NY classical station years ago during college. This effectively means that New York — the cultural capital of the US — has no regular classical music station.

*shudders*

Beyond from the classical music angle, terrestrial radio is a total wasteland except for NPR and — maybe — Air America (sometimes). Why is there so much traditional music on the radio when there is so much more online? Why would anyone want to do traditional music on terrestrial radio in the age of internet radio, iPods, cable, the web, mobile, etc, &c.

It seems to me that the only formula that could compate with the web is an original rebel radio type like Howard Stern that could comply with FCC regulations. And yet who is on traditional radio? Don Imus? Rush Limbaugh? Top 40? “Hard Rock”?

Who is programming this stuff? Grampa?

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