[Magdalen] Aldrich Family.

[Jay Weigel]

We listen to WEMC, Eastern Mennonite University's public radio classical
station, at the gallery.  At least a lot of us do. Some folks opt for
assorted CDs, most that we sell. Others prefer a bluegrass channel.

On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I still love radio and think it's a bit of magic, even though I know
> how it works, and even though it's become a hugely splintered
> collection of outlets catering to narrow slices of listeners, fueled
> by marketing data, etc. And there are more of the robo-stations with
> machines playing recorded DJ banter.
>
> Back in East Cupcake I volunteered as a newspaper reader for the WKAR
> Radio Talking Book, a subchannel service for the "reading impaired" -
> not only the partly to totally blind but also folks physically unable
> to handle a newspaper, magazine, or book. Anyway, I did this partly in
> a volunteer spirit and partly to take part in the magic of radio, even
> if we normally had only 50 listeners max at any given time. There
> something about sitting in a dimly lighted studio in front of a
> microphone and knowing you're speaking to a crowd out there somewhere.
> Love the scene in The King's Speech where the king is in the tiny
> booth giving his well-rehearsed war speech heard by millions up and
> down the country.
>
> I grew up a few decades later than the glory days of radio dramas and
> resonant news bulletins, but we did have WJR in Detroit and WGN in
> Chicago, which up until recently retained some of the authoritative
> aura of a station everyone listens to when important things are
> happening. WJR has gone right-wing talk, but WGN still has the
> distinction of creating all of its own content: no network shows; it
> all comes from the Tribune Tower downtown. Mostly phone-in chat,
> though.
>
> I also love WFMT, Chicago's classical-music station, where you'll
> never hear a clangy commercial jingle or shouting car dealer: there
> are adverts, but they're all read live by the same honey-voiced studio
> talent who introduce the musical selections. An oasis in a desert of
> noise pollution.
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>