Dammit, WPR, what are you doing?
May. 12th, 2024 04:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanter1944I wasn't thrilled with the idea of WPR reorganizing its stations and changing both network names when first I heard about it, but now I find out that both As It Happens and Q are being deleted from the program lineup, and Kalihweyo’se is going away. Damn. it! There goes the main reason I tune in in the evenings. As for Kalihweyo’se, I've been listening to that show since I was in middle school, and I still tune in if I'm within range of Green Bay's stations. So much for diverse music getting airplay. Nope, we get more white European niche twiddling, carefully curated.
Ugh!
I am not a happy Chanter. I'll be civil about it, but I've got an invite to a webinar regarding all the changes tomorrow, and am I going to bring up my dismay twice over? You betcha!
No offense to either fans of classical music or the WPR hosts who present the same, but I've almost never understood the appeal. The fact that an entire network's worth of the ever-lauded genre can't make room for a First Nations music program with a two-decade history for two hours on one night a week really cheeses me off.
And why the frak are they deleting As It Happens? Thanks a lot! :(
Ugh!
I am not a happy Chanter. I'll be civil about it, but I've got an invite to a webinar regarding all the changes tomorrow, and am I going to bring up my dismay twice over? You betcha!
No offense to either fans of classical music or the WPR hosts who present the same, but I've almost never understood the appeal. The fact that an entire network's worth of the ever-lauded genre can't make room for a First Nations music program with a two-decade history for two hours on one night a week really cheeses me off.
And why the frak are they deleting As It Happens? Thanks a lot! :(
