[BC] New HD radio

[Steve]

That's his name. Thanks. I seem to draw a blank on his name for some reason.
Must be guilt. I never sent him an aircheck.
Ahh....good clarification and thanks for that. True. I failed to mention
that in my post. Thanks for shoving me in the "way-back" machine. :) The
times were different and we had more highbrows then and we were part of that
group.

Steve
Steve Walker Productions

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Wood" <richwood at pobox.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: [BC] New HD radio


> ------ 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
>
> Rich Wood
> Rich Wood Multimedia
> Phone: 413-303-9084
> FAX: 413-480-0010
>
>
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