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From:  Greypins@a...
Greypins@a...
Date:  Mon May 21, 2001  3:23 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Re: wgms (fwd)


it seems to me that mr. allison may even, personally, regret having to
make the decision to drop the met broadcasts. the fact is the audience for
opera is not a very large one and without the enthusiasm (meaning $$$) of its
relatively small audience, it probably wouldn't exist at all. if a radio
station is going to decide its programming as a business rather than a public
service, opera will lose, and so will any other music with a small audience.

perhaps an appeal could be made to delay the broadcast to a time when
the larger majority is not listening, thereby, giving the station a chance to
recoup the audience it has lost by dropping the broadcasts. if that still
proves to undoable, perhaps an appeal could be made to play some opera at
some time that is not going to go against the logic of the initial decision.

mike

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