Fwd: Re: [GreenKeys] And now for something compeletely DIFFERENT

[Don Robert House]

>Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 20:18:14 -0700
>To: <jhaynes@alumni.uark.edu>
>From: Don Robert House <drhouse@abac.com>
>Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] And now for something compeletely DIFFERENT
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>>That reminds me of a station that fired up in one of the towns along
>>101 south of Salinas.  (Gonzales, maybe)  They had a powerful signal into
>>Felton, where I lived at the time.  Their format was classical, and
>>consisted of playing the same tape over and over every day.  After about a
>>year of this they started simulcasting with some Los Angeles classical
>>station.  That was interesting, hearing commercials for  the L. A. area
>>up in Central California.  After a short while of that they changed to
>>some rock music format and I quit listening to them.
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>Yes, pretty sad.  At one time Chicago had several classical 
>stations.  One of them was
>WNIB in Chicago that simulcast with WNIZ in Zion, IL.  Had really 
>good disk jockeys.
>Owned by Bill Florian, a benefoactor of NADCOMM.  About 2 years ago 
>he sold the stations and they now do some other format.  There is 
>now only one classical station left in Chicago;  WFMT.
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>Don
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