[rollei_list] Re: WKHR
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:43:24 -0700
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From: "Robert Marvin" <marvbej@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 10:00 AM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: WKHR
Marc,
WKHR is certainly not the only non-NPR publicly-supported
radio
station; there are the Pacifica stations, KPFK, KPFA, and
WBAI.
Although if you think NPR is Bolshevik [which IMO is
ridiculous], I
don't know what you'd make of those three, which really
are quite far
to the left. I used to listen to WBAI, here in New York,
but find
it's politics too strident, even when I agree . I do
listen to the
three local NPR stations though. You wouldn't like WNYC,
which is all
news and talk, but you just might enjoy WBGO (jazz) and
WQXR
(classical)--you could ignore the occasional short NPR
newscasts.
Bob Marvin
I think it should also be noted that a great many
non-profit (they are no longer really non-commercial)
stations are supported largely by corporate money and also
by listener "subscribers". Locally, KPCC, operated by
Pasadena City College, one of two college stations (the
other is KCRW in Santa Monica) that cover the Los
Angeles/Orange county areas, has been contracted out to
Minnesota Public Radio who provides partial funding and also
some programming. Minnesota Public Radio distributes "A
Prarie Home Companion" and some news shows. KPCC also
distributes and originates some American Public Radio
programs. KCRW, while it carries some NPR programming, has
tried to remain essentially independent and gets the bulk of
its funding from listener subscribers and the usual
corporate funding.
While the FCC originally provided space at the low end
of the FM band for non-commercial, educational stations the
lack of government funding for them plus the loosening of
regulations, has forced them to accept corporate funding
that is tantamount to commercial sponsorship. Many have what
amount to commercials. KPCC was originally a low-power
station run by Pasadena City College as part of a very good
school of broadcasting. It was run by students and had all
sorts of eclectic programming, mostly music. The station
discovered that they had a grandfathered permit for a
transmitter on Mount Wilson, where all the local TV and FM
stations are, and developed that. They also decided to
change programming to general new and talk since they were
now covering an enormous area. The costs went up to the
point where the Pasadena Community College District could no
longer fund them so the station was essentially leased to
MPR. While it still has many excellent programs its
complexion changed completely and it no longer has any music
programming and actually carries a lot of filler. Too bad.
They just completed and moved into a large studio complex,
thirteen studios, to originate programming from the West
coast. This is just too much like commercial operation for
my taste and about as far from "Bolshevik" as one can get.
--
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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