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Tag Archives: WCRB
Dear WGBH: This. Totally. Blows. (II)
So the hardworking staff repaired to the Global Worldwide Headquarters ’round midnight to do a little ruminating and construing, and – resignedly – flipped the radio on to WCRB (since WGBH radio has abandoned jazz for a bunch of yack … Continue reading
Dead Blogging the ‘GBH Classical Radio Rumpus, Part 2
Grace notes from Tuesday night’s future-of-classical-music-in-Boston hoedown (all statistics via WGBH general manager John Voci): • Classical audience for WGBH: 120,000; for WCRB: 340,000 • WGBH classical audience: 71% are 55 or older; WGBH news audience: 1o-15 years younger • … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Symphony Orchestra, FCC, repeater stations, WCRB, WGBH
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Dead Blogging the ‘GBH Classical Radio Rumpus
Tuesday evening The Boston Musical Intelligencer presented a panel discussion – “What Can We Do for Classical Music Radio in Boston?” – at the Old South Church in Copley Square. The moderator: William M. Bulger, former Massachusetts Senate President and … Continue reading
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Tagged classical gasbags, public broadcast pity party, The Boston Musical Intelligencer, WCRB, WGBH
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Errors o’ the Day (pat. pending)
Let’s stipulate, as they say on the Law & Order industrial complex (Coming next fall: Law & Order Lunch), that there but for the grace of God go the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider. Regardless . . . Error o’ … Continue reading