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From: geoff@callan.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Classical Radio Stations in Los Angeles
Message-ID: <224@callan.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Aug-84 20:22:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 27 20:22:00 1984
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Organization: Callan Data Systems, Westlake Village, CA
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I can't resist adding a friend's instructions on tuning to KFAC-FM:

	(1) Start in the middle of the dial.
	(2) Tune left (toward the public end) until you reach a
	    station playing classical music.
	(3) You have now found KUSC.
	(4) Tune your radio right one station, to a station that
	    is playing a commercial.
	(5) You have now found KFAC.

As well as playing 20 minutes an hour of commercials (yes, that's right, 33%),
KFAC has an annoying habit of playing extracts from works (and not just in
educational contexts).  I find this both frustrating and disrespectful of
the composer (can you imagine hearing *only* the third movement of
Tchaikowsky's 6th?).  I have even heard them do things like play a piece of
a movement, clumsily faded out when time runs out, or take a commercial
break between movements.  Thank god I never heard them run a commercial
during the side flip in the last movement of the Mahler 2nd (not that they
ever play Mahler).

My friends and I call KFAC by a more disrespectful name, KF*C.  Definitely
the worst commercial classical station I have ever encountered.
-- 

	Geoff Kuenning
	Callan Data Systems
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