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| From | Michael Coxe <audities@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: OT: past/future of radio [was: podcast survey] |
| Date | Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:52:34 -0700 |
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Farrar Hudkins wrote:
> But back to them changes: A co-worker of mine talks often of a station
> he worked for (in Seattle?) that had the best leeway and most fiercely
> devoted listeners he ever encountered. The suits just said "Play
> whatever you want, as long as it's good." You'd hear something from Pat
> Metheny's "New Chautauqua" next to a Schubert quintet, maybe --
> literally anything would work if you could find a segue, theme, mood,
> whatever. That would be my dream job. Naturally, though, that station
> closed down before I was born.
Sounds like KRAB co-founded by Lorenzo Milam in the ealy 60's.
KRAB was the anti-Pacifica side of the non-commercial radio world,
and spawned a number of children, including the infamous KPIG.
- michael
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