A few years ago, University of the Pacific had one of the best folk lineups you could hope for: 7:00-10:00 five nights a week and four hours, 11:00-3:00, on Saturday. The weekend host was "Uncle John" Gwinner, husband of autoharp virtuoso Tina Louise Barr. The week day material was like a "Top 40" review of current Folk, Celtic, Western Swing and Bluegrass CDs. Saturday was even more eclectic, with lots of "hot pickers" like Tony Rice and David Grisman, plus many CDs you were unlikely to own.

Control of the content was switched (by NPR) to Sacramento, were a total of five college stations now originate. The new manager ended the daily broadcast saying that it "did not fit our demographics". I just looked today and "UncleJohn's" weekend show is also gone.