#1 Peasant, you said, "Radio stations especially those which are public radio stations depend upon donations. Are they getting donations from listeners of their folk music programs?"

I will restate what I said above about WAMU: "The bluegrass programs, especially the afternoon bluegrass on WAMU, were one of [the biggest], or the very biggest, sources of listener contributions."

It didn't stop them from dropping the afternoon bluegrass, moving Dick Spotswood to late Saturday night, etc. They were angling for big corporate contributions. (There were articles about the conflict in the Washington Post, I'm not just throwing mud here, I'm throwing documented mud here....)

Sorry I can't find the original articles to be sure I'm being accurate, does anyone remember it differently? Ron D? Kathy?

Rita F