[BC] New HD radio

[Rich Wood]

------ At 12:57 AM 1/21/2006, Steve wrote: -------

>Those are the "highbrows" speaking. The two phone calls you get in a week.
>Phooey! I wouldn't have gotten a 3.1 12+ in Dallas if that were true. I
>played movements in the Morning Show all the time. The opening movement of
>the Haydn 87th...Great wakeup/commute piece. First movement of Mozart's
>25th....exciting. And yes...the Carlos Kleiber recording of Beethoven's 5th,
>1st movement would be played. Play the hits or, in the case of Classical
>music, the sound-a-likes and you'll win. When you're goin' for the cars
>Shostakovich or Mahler ain't gonna cut it. You know that Rich. Bob, you know
>that deep down inside as well. Now I'm talking Classical music in the
>semi-passive mode NOT the active mode which Shosty and Gustav require. Rich,
>I'm sure you remember the NCN/QXR fight? That's when I got the call from the
>QXR consultant and finally the P.D. (I'm drawing a blank on the name of the
>QXR consultant at the time...that was 18 years ago)

The WQXR consultant was Mike Joseph. The Early WGBH, WFMT, WQXR and 
WNCN would never have played a movement from a work. They would have 
played shorter works. That's what we did at WGBH. WGBH certainly had 
its share of "highbrows" listening, as did the others.

Of course, those were also the days when FM was still considered an 
audiophile source.

Rich

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