Re: CHAT: Names of radiostations (was: Re: The young Tolkien)

Padraic Brown wrote:
>Possibly. There are "deletions", though, like when a station
>changes format and they want to get rid of an inappropriate
>callsign.

I HATE when that happens. Back in the 60s, a classical station in NYC was
bought out and switched to Spanish; that was a jolt, but there were
alternatives. A certain university station here in Michigan, which I'd
listened to faithfully for almost 30 years, switched from classical music to
all-talk, without warning, very summarily, on July 1, 1996, a date that
lives in infamy (for me).  Unfortunately, it comes in well on my
clock-radio, so perforce I wake up to Diane Rehm (who is pretty good); but
somehow I just can't be lulled to sleep by the BBC news.

The univ. station at Ohio U, where I worked briefly in the 70s, had a
curious arrangement:  during the day, it broadcast country music (my entire
exposure to that genre) and ABC news reports; at 5PM it joined NPR and
became more listenable; it also produced some very nice "history of
Bluegrass/Appalachian music" programs of its own.  This was in the good old
days, when NPR did mostly music, little talk. (But I won't rant on that
subject.)

My sister, who thinks I'm an utter doofus for not liking country music, is
always amazed when I say, "oh yes, I remember that one..."