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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
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Subject: Re: Boston's Hit Radio station (Is Springsteen losing it?)
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Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 15:32:46 EDT
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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