junius wrote:
John S. wrote:

BBC is a regular on public radio and television and I find it to be a
good addition to the news programming already available on those
stations. Clearly it displaces other content, but whether local,
national or international programming that was displaced would be hard
to determine. British programming has been a regular on public radio
and television since the early days. I hope Pitts is not lamenting the
availability of high quality dramatic programming of non U.S. origins
as well. I see news from BBC as adding to the already wide range of
programming on public radio and television.

I agree. Overall, I have been quite happy with WETA's shift to an all
news/talk format w/substantial portions consisting of BBC programming.
I gotta say, though, that, in my opinion, the World Have Your Say
program isn't really up to BBC standards.

I guess some classical music fans have been the main losers in WETA's
content overhaul. For classical fare, my tendency was always to tune
to WGMS, anyway. Admittedly, I miss the program of medieval &
classical liturgical music that used to air on WETA at 10pm on Sunday
nights. For me, that one program was the real loss...

Yes, there have been some notable losses on local public radio. I was
a long time fan of Dick Cerri, but his folk program was dropped quite a
while ago. Still glad to hear Hot Jazz Saturday Night and Thistle and
Shamrock. I certainly understand that a mix of programs from 20 years
ago may not attract as many listeners today and I'm willing to live
with the changes. Overall their programming is still top notch.

**classical music fans have been the main losers in WETA's content
overhaul.**

Can you get WBJC where you are? I have heard it on a car radio as far
south as Culpeper VA.

Depends on where I am, really, as to how reception is. It can be
difficult in D.C. and NOVA, given the many strong local signals which
can easily overload a cheap FM receiver (even w/antenna down). Radios
w/a good FM section, like the E1, would be able to pull WBJC out, even
in the worst locale. With my Sangean 606A, however, receiving WBJC is
a hopeless affair in D.C. proper and in Arlington and Alexandria
counties.

Beloved Leader wrote:
**classical music fans have been the main losers in WETA's content
overhaul.**

Can you get WBJC where you are? I have heard it on a car radio as far
south as Culpeper VA.

bbc World news comes on my DirecTV several times each day and night,next
transtamission is on at 5:00 AM,but I wont watch it.I actually did try
to watch that bbc biased crap once or twice about a year ago.They need
to get a better lookin woman on there!
cuhulin

**With my Sangean 606A, however, receiving WBJC is
a hopeless affair in D.C. proper and in Arlington and Alexandria
counties.**

I just tried a few minutes ago in Alexandria, with a DX-399, off the
whip. I think that's the same as the Sangean 606A. WBJc does come in,
but I had to walk around the room to lfind the sweet spot. Even then it
was noisy. I got stereo reception using headphones, again with noise.
You could tolerate it in the background probably.

In article . com,
"Beloved Leader" wrote:

**classical music fans have been the main losers in WETA's content
overhaul.**

Can you get WBJC where you are? I have heard it on a car radio as far
south as Culpeper VA.

Classical music is the best thing the public service stations around
here have in their favor. There is only one commercial station in LA
using the classical music format.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 01:59:35 GMT, Telamon
wrote:

In article . com,
"Beloved Leader" wrote:

**classical music fans have been the main losers in WETA's content
overhaul.**

Can you get WBJC where you are? I have heard it on a car radio as far
south as Culpeper VA.

Classical music is the best thing the public service stations around
here have in their favor. There is only one commercial station in LA
using the classical music format.

That's one more than most places.

Can you get these guys?

http://www.kusc.org/images/StationMap.gif

I would prefer to watch that naked Rusian news woman on Russky tv news
than that brit woman on bbc news.
cuhulin

Telamon wrote:
Classical music is the best thing the public service stations around
here have in their favor. There is only one commercial station in LA
using the classical music format.

Around here they mainly do jazz, especially the college station WDCB.
It's wonderful.

--
All relevant people are pertinent.
All rude people are impertinent.
Therefore, no rude people are relevant.
-- Solomon W. Golomb

Them "experts" out there tickle the crap out of me.Get about 150 feet of
skinny wire and put it up outside as high as you can.You can't do any
better than that,,, unless you put up two 150 feets of wire so you can
have North/South and East/West direction.And select between which wires
you want to use by indepently unplugging and plugging into your
radio.Flying Tigers movie is on tv now.
cuhulin