Chris! wrote:
"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
... What makes up for this is some of the
fine local programming, and it's in
almost all markets large and small. Yes, there are folks on local
stations
who play Janacek operas still. As long as this is the case, I'll keep
sending them a donation.

In this market--the same as Scott's--there was a wonderful commercial
classical station, WGH-FM. It was #13 just before the owners flipped it to
rock. We get 40-some FM signals here and you would think that one of the
low-rated stations would want to get up to #13 by programming classical...

I have the happy luck to be located directly between two markets. I can get
the NPR affiliate in Richmond, as well as the two in Norfolk, in my car.

At home, I can swing the beam around and catch those three, plus one on
the Eastern Shore, and occasionally two in DC. I can usually get the
Pacifica affiliate in DC and the Norfolk State college station (which is
an NPR affiliate but only runs limited NPR programming) and sometimes
a college station in North Carolina.

What worries me is that a lot of these are now having the edges of their
contours chopped away by huge numbers of Christian station translators
all over the area. The noncomm section of the band is just getting packed
by Christian translators, to the point where the William and Mary station
is really hardly audible outside of Williamsburg because they are packed
in by three on-channel translators so any direction gets interference.
Also, their good reggae DJ graduated and left.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."