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From: lbv@sdchema.UUCP (Gordon Schlesinger)
Newsgroups: net.wobegon
Subject: "...and now a word about our local stations"
Message-ID: <377@sdchema.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Apr-85 17:29:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: sdchema.377
Posted: Tue Apr 30 17:29:18 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 3-May-85 03:29:37 EDT
Organization: U.C. San Diego Chemistry Dept
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	["Step up and speak directly into the microphone"]

During the last year various proposals have been made to 
expand the topics base of net.wobegon (net.Keilor ?), in 
an effort to convince site administrators that this group
has not disappeared in a burst of terminal anxiety.  None
seems to have created much response.

(Battling overwhelming shyness, nevertheless, he continued):
May I be so bold as to propose yet another area for possible 
discussion:  the quality (or lack thereof), performance, 
character, etc, of the individual public radio stations which bring us 
APHC?  I specifically do not include the networks:  National Public 
Radio and American Public Radio, although others may want to 
discuss them.

Out here in Lotus Land we have a pretty fair example of a public
radio station operating in a (monopoly) market whose level of performance 
seems to be roughly inversely proportional to the level of resources
available to it.  Could this sort of behavior be more general than
commonly assumed?  Anyone else care to characterize his local 
public radio outlet?  Would there be any benefit in bringing
in some of the (displaced) CBS brass to whip the local 
outlets into shape?  Perhaps Jack (of Jack's Auto Repair)?

				Gordon Schlesinger
				Norwegian Bachelor Chemist
				U. C San Diego Chemistry Dept.

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