Comments on: What To Do About WREK http://rift.org/1128/2006/10/what-to-do-about-wrek/ Adam Preble's Weblog Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:19:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Vince http://rift.org/1128/2006/10/what-to-do-about-wrek/#comment-2048 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:35:49 +0000 http://rift.org/1128/2006/10/what-to-do-about-wrek/#comment-2048 <p>What the hell -- leave 91.1 alone -- it was originally intended for the students and should remain as such.</p> <p>The idea of carrying NPR content confounds since Atlanta already has two stations carry some (not all) NPR programming. 90.1 has elected to throw the switch off the feed around 9am each day and blast out classical music. So, let me guess, 91.1 could become the THIRD station in town to carry Talk of The Nation? You know, just in case you can't find the other stations on the band within the +/- 1MHz spread? Brilliant.</p> <p>Instead of even making the suggestion for WREK to carry NPR or dump FM for HD (for all two or three people with HD receivers out there), the better solution is this: WABE should dump the music playlist and join the PeachState Network while WREK continues to spin music like "20 Minutes of Droning Airplane Prop Engine" all hours of the day and night. If people demand commerical programming and really want to hear play-by-play analysis of women's shuffle board, then they need to crack a deal with Budwiser and stuff it on an AM station where it belongs. Otherwise, WREK is going to become exactly what USF's student station is today after lightning took out their transmitter: a bleak, basement existance where a DJ pushes scratchy audio through the campus cable TV network to a single listener: a rotten, cardboard-cone speaker in the mildewy billards room next door.</p> What the hell — leave 91.1 alone — it was originally intended for the students and should remain as such.

The idea of carrying NPR content confounds since Atlanta already has two stations carry some (not all) NPR programming. 90.1 has elected to throw the switch off the feed around 9am each day and blast out classical music. So, let me guess, 91.1 could become the THIRD station in town to carry Talk of The Nation? You know, just in case you can’t find the other stations on the band within the +/- 1MHz spread? Brilliant.

Instead of even making the suggestion for WREK to carry NPR or dump FM for HD (for all two or three people with HD receivers out there), the better solution is this: WABE should dump the music playlist and join the PeachState Network while WREK continues to spin music like “20 Minutes of Droning Airplane Prop Engine” all hours of the day and night. If people demand commerical programming and really want to hear play-by-play analysis of women’s shuffle board, then they need to crack a deal with Budwiser and stuff it on an AM station where it belongs. Otherwise, WREK is going to become exactly what USF’s student station is today after lightning took out their transmitter: a bleak, basement existance where a DJ pushes scratchy audio through the campus cable TV network to a single listener: a rotten, cardboard-cone speaker in the mildewy billards room next door.

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