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From: johnm@houxd.UUCP (#J.MONTGOMERY)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: classical FM stations
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Date: Thu, 12-Jan-84 09:34:10 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 12 09:34:10 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Jan-84 06:35:42 EST
Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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I can't resist throwing in my two cents worth.  I have had
the opportunity over the past nine years to sample the
offerings of classical stations in Chicago, Washington DC,
and New York.  To my taste, WFMT (Chicago) is the BEST of
the bunch - by far (note I refer to programming quality,
not signal quality - I make no comments there, because of
problems related to my own location and equipment).  I
fondly recall Andy Karzas' program "From the Recording Horn",
an excellent program of truly unusual and interesting
historical recordings, and Don Tait's WONDERFUL series on
Leopold Stokowski (where I first heard the early Bell
Labs stereo recordings).  While the others - WQXR, WNCN,
WNYC (NYC) and WETA, WGMS (DC) - all offer many good things,
I don't find the overall level up to WFMT (I do, however,
have fond memories of Paul Hume's programs on WGMS...).

	John Montgomery
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