[BC] WQXR Downgrade...

[Burt I. Weiner]

This is what happens when you have sales people that are nothing more 
than order takers.  You throw away a very large and loyal audience 
because you don't know how to deal with it.  I suppose it's not a lot 
different than my attitude about rock music, "Who wants to listen to 
that???"  I know for certain that I'm not a minority.  From what I 
understand, WQXR was actually making money, it was just that the 
owners needed quick cash because of debt.  So what do you do(?) - 
sell the goose.

Burt

>There sure are a BUNCH of disappointed WQXR listeners posting to that
>blog about the switch! Classical fans should just be HAPPY to still
>have ANY Station in the market with that format. Advertisers will now
>ONLY buy the 12+ Radio Stations...PERIOD.
>
>My question is this: Why on Earth did you reduce the Bandwidth of the
>Internet Stream? As cheap as Bit Casting is to do, why not keep the
>High Fidelity 93 kbps stream? As demanding as Classical Music, as
>well as Classical Music Fans are, a 32 kbps stream is just NOT going
>to deliver the quality it takes to send out that format.
>--
>
>73,
>Kevin Raper