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Re: Monday, May 10, 2004
Doc, I don't think you are missing much by not having a news-oriented NPR station. We have KQED-FM as the primary NPR outlet in the Bay Area, and I can tell you two things about KQED-FM. First, KQED-FM runs Morning Edition from 3 am to 9 am, repeating the same 2 hour show 3 times in succession. All Things Considered rus twice (fortunately not back to back.) Same thing for Terri Gross' "Fresh Air" program. KQED does have some local news breaks (mostly of the "rip and read" variety), but they are relatively brief and mostly at the top of the hour. An earthquake such as you described would probably not be mentioned for quite some time, if at all. Secondly, although KQED claims to be a Public Radio station, they have as many or more "underwriting credit" messages than the commercial stations here have as straight up commercials. I once heard KQED-FM admit that their listening audience provides 55% of their operating budget. Obviuosly the balance of their budget comes from somewhere, and I am sure that's why we are treated to all those non-commercials on KQED-FM. I would give just about anything to be able to listen to the various musical and spoken word performance programs NPR makes available to their affiliates. But precious little of that programing can be heard on the radio in south San Jose, where I live. KCSM-FM (San Mateo) specializes in Jazz, and carries the Jazz programming NPR has to offer, but that is all. KALW (San Francisco) does not have much of a signal here in San Jose, but to my knowledge, KALW is the only NPR station in the Bay Area carrying any of the NPR performance programs. I would rather listen to the music progamming NPR has to offer than listen to yet another repeat of those NPR news/talk shows, filled with non-commercials from the corporations underwriting KQED-FM. Bob Getsla There are responses to this message:
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