Dismayed
To learn that Weekend America is going off the air. What a shame! It's the highlight of my Saturday afternoon listening. (WUNC, central N.C.) Why couldn't it have been shortened to One hour instead? What's next? Garrison Keillor's PHC?
"American Public Media announced Dec. 19 [2008] that it will shutter Weekend America, its two-hour weekend digest, as of Jan. 31. The program airs on 134 stations." Sigh.
"American Public Media announced Dec. 19 [2008] that it will shutter Weekend America, its two-hour weekend digest, as of Jan. 31. The program airs on 134 stations." Sigh.
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Permalink Reply by Mark Jeffries on -
It's interesting--new public radio shows get attacked by people until they get cancelled--then people say that they like them. Wacky.
Unfortunately, I personally think that there are too many newsmagazine format shows on public radio right now and that there needed to be a pruning process, of which this and "Day by Day" and "News and Notes" is exactly that response. Just because people love "ME" and "ATC" doesn't mean that they want "ME" and "ATC"-type shows in every day part. Now I don't know what to do as replacements, since nothing seems to be working right now (including the stations doing DJ shows), but it's really time to try something other than shows with highly-produced nine-minute-maximum pieces with the headline stuff at the top of the half-hour and featurey stuff at the bottom of the hour, all separated by perky music buttons.
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Permalink Reply by Ron Perrone on -
Maybe we smell a paradigm shift and just can't place the odor? If the programming needed to keep a station on the air seems to be long in the tooth, maybe the audience not tuning in sees the medium the same way.
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