Yes, Don, lots of us in the D.C. area are very much aware that we were rich "before," when we had so much more traditinal radio music available, and that we are rich now. It's quite true. In fact this is something my friends and I sometimes talk about! We feel rich just to live in an area where folk and traditional music styles are so well loved and so well supported. We are rich in live music, and local, friendly, living-room music, too. It's one of the best things in my life.

And I do very much wish there were more traditional music programming available in other areas of the country!

All the same I believe it isn't greed, or whining, to be angry and frustrated when money-grubbers decide to make the world a little less rich in the things that count.

Happens all the time, but you can (and maybe should) be upset, and not just accept it without trying to change the situation. Sometimes it helps, too. Unless my good ol' memory is failing me again, Dick Spotswood's program was moved to the middle of the night for a while, but WAMU brought it back to a better position because of the huge number of requests.

Rita F