JJ Yore was also longtime editor of Current, the public radio industry newpaper.
Interestingly about Bluegrass in Washington is that when I lived there in the 80’s there were two full time traditional country music stations on AM WKCW, Warrenton, VA, and WPWC, Loudon County. They both played a lot of bluegrass and were quite audible in DC (about 30 miles from the transmitters. Much of the audience for WAMU’s bluegrass I suspect was out towards the Shendandoah Valley where they had a huge signal. > On Jul 10, 2016, at 1:45 PM, Richard Cuff <[email protected]> wrote: > > Interesting that JJ Yore, quoted in the article, was at one time the > GM of APM's "Marketplace" business / economic program, suggesting that > a bottom-line focus is at work. > > Good news is that there are 92 other program listings in the > "bluegrass" category on Publicradio fan.com > > (http://www.publicradiofan.com/cgibin/progsearch.pl?type=country/bluegrass+music&when=listall). > > It's pretty straightforward to use an audio stream grabber with public > radio stations -- that stream using HTTP and generally in MP3 or AAC > formats -- so you can schedule a download of audio and build up an > inventory of radio you can then transfer to an MP3-playing device...I > use a a cheap un-activated Straight Talk Wireless smartphone for that > purpose. > > That's what I do with "big band" shows and baroque-themed classical music. > > Anyone needing a "how-to" on that just give me a yell. > > Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA > > On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 9:10 PM, Thomas Sundstrom <[email protected]> wrote: >> https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/after-nearly-50-years-bluegrass-could-disappear-from-washingtons-airwaves/2016/07/08/d0bccf74-448e-11e6-88d0-6adee48be8bc_story.html >> >> Say it isn't so. Good bluegrass music programming may come to an end in >> Washington unless WAMU can sell its station by year end. I came around to >> bluegrass music through Philadelphia's WIFI-92.5 airing wonderful folk music >> in the early 1960s when I was in college. > _______________________________________________ > Swlfest mailing list > [email protected] > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest > > To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to > [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown > above. > > For more information on the Fest, visit: > > http://www.swlfest.com > http://swlfest.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Swlfest mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
