WETA Radio may drop classical music

Subject: RE: WETA Radio may drop classical music
From: Pauline L
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 04:18 PM

Kathy, please tell me more. How do I get BBC Scotland?

Subject: RE: WETA Radio may drop classical music
From: Pauline L
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 04:24 PM

PoppaGator, thanks so much! I'm listening to it now. ;-)

Subject: RE: WETA Radio may drop classical music
From: PoppaGator
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 04:47 PM

Glad to be of service. I was afraid that a slow connection speed might have been the reason you weren't already listening to this more-or-less local station via the Internet.

You don't HAVE to be far away from a station to listen to its webcast. I'm currently listening to the same great local non-profit station on my office computer that I listen to in my car on the commute back and forth from home. If I had a radio on my desk in addition to a PC, I suppose I could tune in "the old fashioned way," but I don't, and the webcast works just fine.

Commercial radio stations, apparently, are not allowed to webcast (or maybe they just don't find it profitable), but many public and community stations from around the world can be accessed by the internet.

My favorite station, for which I am glad to do some volunteer wwork several times a year, is WWOZ, FM 90.7 in New Orleans ~ not classical (not hardly), unless you agree with those commentators who describe jazz as "America's classical music."

Subject: RE: WETA Radio may drop classical music
From: KathWestra
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 11:42 PM

Pauline, follow this link to Archie Fisher's Travelling Folk Show.
As I mentioned, each two-hour show is available for an entire week by clicking the "Listen Again" button. He plays a wonderful variety of folk, leaning heavily on traditional material, and including both the U.K. and North America. Enjoy!
BBC Scotland Travelling Folk with Archie Fisher

Lester Simpson's show on BBC Derby is linked on my computer at work, so I'll add it to this thread tomorrow.

Subject: RE: WETA Radio may drop classical music
From: Pauline L
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 03:06 PM

Thanks, PoppaGator. Does anyone have any other good suggestions for stations that play folk or jazz that I can listen to on the Internet? Now that I have broadband, I have opportunities.

Subject: RE: WETA Radio may drop classical music
From: PoppaGator
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 03:32 PM

For starters, here's a list of stations around the country that broadcast the syndicated American Routes radio program:

http://www.americanroutes.org/stations.html

Most of 'em are NPR stations, and many of them probably still feature classical music most of the time. If they carry American Routes, though, they must have an interest in at least some of the "roots music" (folk/blues/country/jazz) presented by that program.

Subject: RE: WETA Radio may drop classical music
From: Pauline L
Date: 03 Aug 05 - 03:31 PM

My thanks to all who recommended BBC Internet radio for classical music. It's great! So many programs to choose from! I've been listening to classical music all my life, and now I'm listening to and enjoying music I've never heard before. This is great!

Subject: RE: WETA Radio may drop classical music
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Aug 05 - 04:57 PM

In the WETA area you should still get 94.1 Baltimore classical music.

Subject: RE: WETA Radio may drop classical music
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 03 Aug 05 - 05:23 PM

I've found a wonderful meta-page that will take you to non-commercial broadcasts anywhere in the world. You can sort by genre, location, language, or even program name.


http://www.publicradiofan.com/

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: WETA Radio may drop classical music
From: sapper82
Date: 04 Aug 05 - 05:56 AM

BBC Radio 3 Season of the Sir Henry Wood Promanade Concerts;

Subject: RE: WETA Radio may drop classical music
From: Pauline L
Date: 04 Aug 05 - 04:53 PM

Donuel, I just tried 94.7 and got a rock station. I think there's a rcok station in the DC area that blasts out everything else. Charlie and sapper82, thanks for the links. The meta-page is awesome.

Subject: RE: WETA Radio may drop classical music
From: Pauline L
Date: 10 Aug 05 - 10:51 AM

I'd like some more advice from one or more of you knowledgeable people. Can I listen to Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz *online*?

Subject: RE: WETA Radio may drop classical music
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 10 Aug 05 - 11:12 AM

The publicradiofan.com website I noted above will also sort by program name. For example, for Piano Jazz, you'll get:


http://www.publicradiofan.com/cgi-bin/program.pl?programid=74


which gives a complete listing of stations webcasting Piano Jazz sorted by time of the week. Small icons following each listing indicate whether it's webcast using Windows Media Player, Real Audio, mp3, Oggs Vorbis, or something else.

The site will also sort for any other non-commercial radio show you can think of.

Subject: RE: WETA Radio may drop classical music
From: PoppaGator
Date: 10 Aug 05 - 11:29 AM

"Publicradiofan" sounds like a fantastic resource. Sorting webcasted programs by day and time is a very helpful feature.

One of my favorite syndicated non-commercial radio programs is "American Routes," which has its own website listing all the stations that carry it, complete with day and time of the broadcast. The problem is that the stations are not listed by day and time of their broadcast of the program ~ they're listed geographically by state, the list includes stations with and without webcasting capabilities, and there are LOTS of them. To find a webcast on a given day of the week, you have to search "manually" via trial-and-error through the whole long list. Too much hassle to even bother!

(If you're driving cross-country and want to find the nearest public radio stations, this type of listing could be helpful. However, not too many of us have web access in our cars!)

Subject: RE: WETA Radio may drop classical music
From: Pauline L
Date: 12 Aug 05 - 12:21 AM

Charlie, thanks for the advice on publicradiofan. I have tried it and it does work as you described. Now I have another question. Is there a way I can find a particular program that has been "stored" online? Live webcasts are useful, but only if I'm at my computer or radio at the time of the live webcast. The Kennedy Center archives their Millenium Stage concerts so you can search and listen after the live concert, and the BBC does something similar with their Proms concerts.

Subject: RE: WETA Radio may drop classical music
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 12 Aug 05 - 01:18 PM

Publicradiofan.com has just added a section on podcasts, which are basically stored audio programs. But the best way to find out if a partcular show has stored programs available to be listened to "on demand" is to go to the website associated with that particular show. Many shows can't do this (yet) because of contractual problems involving broadcast rights to the music contained therein, but it's worth checking out, and it seems to be becoming more and more the wave of the future.

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: WETA Radio may drop classical music
From: Pauline L
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 12:54 AM

Oh, no. More bad news. I like to listen to classical music, so when WETA stopped playing it, I switched to WBJC, a Baltimore station. WBJC's signal is rather weak, so I've been listening to the station online. I tried to listen a few minutes ago, and I found this at WBJC's website:

In the past, WBJC offered on-line streaming at no cost to the station. The trade agreement with our on-line provider enabled WBJC to offer this free service to the few people who listened to the station through their computers. Due to the sale of our on-line provider, this trade agreement has now been terminated. WBJC would now be obliged to pay a minimum of ten thousand dollars annually for a service which we were formerly able to provide gratis. WBJC now must consider whether it is worth this substantial expense to provide on-line service for so few people. The on-line universe of listeners numbers around 250 people versus the broadcast universe of 200,000 listeners. Meanwhile, the station will continue to search for a trade agreement with another on-line provider, but until one is found, streaming will no longer be available.

Outrageous! "The on-line universe of listeners numbers around 250 people..." This does not make sense to me. Does some policymaker believe that only 250 people listen to WBJC online? What can we do to get classical music back?

(I still can't get over having no noncommercial classical music station in our nation's capitol. Buenos Aires has four, two of which are on 24/7.)

Subject: RE: WETA Radio may drop classical music
From: KathWestra
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 03:47 PM

Each one of the 250 of us who listen online (assuming that number is correct) should send WBJC $40, and that makes the $10,000 they need. I did that when I realized they were off the internet, and suggested to them that they ask for donations on the same page where the notice of termination is posted. I hope others do the same thing--and call WBJC to let them know they care. Kathy in Maine (but the WBJC stuff should really have been in a new thread, not the WETA one!)

Subject: RE: WETA Radio may drop classical music
From: Pauline L
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 03:56 PM

I don't know how they could possibly have gotten the misinformation that only 250 people listen to WBJC online. Their marketing process must be severely screwed up.