D.C. Radio Stations Reshuffle Formats, But Classical Stays On

WRC TV, Washington, D.C. & AP ^ | January 22, 2007 | NBC 4.com

[raccoonradio]

>>We have commercial classical radio in Boston.

The famed WCRB, now at 99.5 FM. It (102.5) was sold to Greater
Media, which owned 5 stations (adult album, talk,
country, classic hits, and adult contemporary) and the FCC
said one of them had to be sold off due to an ownership cap, so they moved the
country to 102.5 and sold off the 99.5 frequency (antenna
a bit further away from Boston). New owner of THAT station,
Nassau Broadcasting, said they would move the WCRB
call letters and format there, and they did.

[raccoonradio]

(of course you know that, but am just explaining to those
from outside the area!)

Howie Carr rules! Howie Carr ping only on FR!

[GAB-1955]

Actually, there are two, if you count WBJC in Baltimore. The other public stations are Pacifica jazz, C-SPAN, and another jazz station.

[Borges]

And Dziga Vertov and Boris Barnet...at that time in the Soviet Union artists had to do stuff like that or be killed. And unlike LR Eisenstein didn't make film directly glorifying Stalin. His work is mostly historical films. Actually the 'Ivan the Terrible' films were a burlesque of Stalin's secret police. You could call Shostakovitch a propagandist as well. He set all sorts of Stalinist panegyrics to music. He was also much more explicit than Eisenstein.