"Number of listeners to classical broadcasts has declined steadily"--I wonder why--maybe because it's been progressively harder to even find classical programming on WETA. They lost me when they made the brilliant move to drop morning classical music in order to broadcast Morning Edition directly opposite WAMU, which was already doing it.

I also agree with Kathy Westra--bite-size classical is not what we're looking for----e.g. if you're going to play Mozart Piano Concerto #21, there's more to it than the "Elvira Madigan" Adagio--we need a little faith in the listeners that they do in fact like classical music, and could likely tolerate an entire concerto or symphony.   After all, we're not asking for the entire uninterrupted Ring (though Garrison Keillor had a skit in which while "classical pieces of longer length" were playing, the DJ, masked for the occasion, would ride through the countryside collecting" involuntary donations" for public radio.)

At any rate, WETA should spare us their crocodile tears--we certainly will spare them our financial support--and send some of it to WBJC.