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Thread #78019   Message #1530497
Posted By: PoppaGator
28-Jul-05 - 04:47 PM
Thread Name: WETA Radio may drop classical music
Subject: RE: WETA Radio may drop classical music
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."