Re: How does the BBC work? (was Jazz)

From: Elson Trinidad (elson@westworld.com)
Date: Wed Jan 10 2001 - 20:22:27 CET

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    GlesneM@aol.com wrote:
     uld be in hardcover at you local library.
    >
    > national pubic radio (1 national station with local and national programmers)
    > really great in a lot of ways. it's music programming suffers worse. it has
    > to cater to a high end, affluent white man or woman as its average listener.
    > it caters to stressed out managers who want to unwind after work to some
    > lightweight jazz - almost 1/2 vocals. as someone mentioned i think, a public
    > radio jazz "dj" can not choose his/her own songs. America's salvation for
    > music is really solely a funciton of community and college radio.

    Hmmm, but isn't the music programming on NPR stations under the control of the
    affiliate station itself, and not NPR? All they do is play back some DATs or
    live feeds of NPR talk/news shows, NPR itself has no real say on the actual
    music played on the station, if they do decide to play music during non-NPR hours.

    At least that's how it's done at KCRW in Los Angeles, which (ObAJ) features
    Jason Bentley's trademark electronica selections and Garth "No Relation"
    Trinidad's jazz/soul/hip-hop weeknights and Gilles' "Worldwide" every Saturday
    night. But I would tend to guess the way things are done at KCRW are the rule
    for NPR stations rather than the exception.

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