Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Boston's Hit Radio station (Is Springsteen losing it?) Message-ID: <3041@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 15:32:46 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.3041 Posted: Mon Jun 11 15:32:46 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Jun-84 01:37:17 EDT References: <1948@mit-eddie.UUCP> <1956@mit-eddie.UUCP>, <1960@mit-eddie.UUCP> Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 19 Agreed. Educational FM stations are SO much easier to listen to than commercial ones; every now and then I spend five minutes or so tuning across the band, and light on a commercial station. As soon as a commercial comes on, I feel irritated and antsy, and soon thereafter retune to one of the educational stations, or put on some form of recorded music, or just forget it and have silence. Sadly, one of the oldest non-commercial stations here [St. Louis], KFUO, sponsored by the Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod), and one of the major sources of classical music here, has had to start airing commercials for revenue. (They've been around long enough that they pre-dated the 88-92 MHz educational band, and are on 99.1.) Luckily, they use low-key vocal announcements which are relatively easy to ignore. Educational stations air a lot of junk public-service announcements, of course, but even those are better than the car dealers. Will