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[Thomas Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com>]

        I have to agree with Paula on everything she's said about the change 
in
WUNC.  Rather than launch into a major rant on the subject, I'll just
say that WUNC used to be a very community-oriented radio station.  Now
it is simply Generic Public Radio, "Your NPR Station".  Back Porch Music
is the only local-origin programming left.  

        I love WNCW and listen whenever I'm in the mountains, wish our station
here could be like that.  

        "Back Porch Music" on Friday and Saturday nights is terrific, 
however. 
If anyone on this list is contemplating a donation to WUNC, I urge you
to earmark your gift for support of local-origin music programming
only.  

TaB

Childers.Paula AT epamail.epa.gov wrote:
> 
> I read a good article on the format change in last week's Indy
> (http://www.indyweek.com/durham/current/porch.html).
> 
> Apparently it was motivated in major part by a desire to "up" listener
> contributions-- which are apparently correlated with "ratings," which are
> used as part of the process of whether they will receive additional funding
> from CPB.
> 
> While I agree that classical & jazz are pretty well covered in this market
> without WUNC, I'm sad that they felt the need to "feed the ratings" rather
> than be independently minded, in the true liberal spirit of Chapel Hill.
> Perhaps they should have taken a clue from my personal favorite public
> radio station:
> 
> http://www.wncw.org/
> 
> PC
> 
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