This is the station that plays individual movements from longer works, probably because 12 minutes or so is as long as the announcers can bear to shut up.
When the sole remaining classical station in Chicago went to this format, I saw it more as catering to the short-attention-span crowd, trying to attract younger listeners who didn't have the patience for all that stuff. Ironically, when I moved away, I discovered that the local classical station broadcasts their own programming primarily on weekdays between the morning and afternoon NPR news shows: the overnight music is simply a feed from that same Chicago station. (What's even weirder is that the announcer and I went to the same high school, and his voice is familiar from all the theater he did then.)
Gosh, this media consolidation thing sure is . . harumph. I miss the days when they'd play just Beethoven all day, one piece at a time.
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When the sole remaining classical station in Chicago went to this format, I saw it more as catering to the short-attention-span crowd, trying to attract younger listeners who didn't have the patience for all that stuff. Ironically, when I moved away, I discovered that the local classical station broadcasts their own programming primarily on weekdays between the morning and afternoon NPR news shows: the overnight music is simply a feed from that same Chicago station. (What's even weirder is that the announcer and I went to the same high school, and his voice is familiar from all the theater he did then.)
Gosh, this media consolidation thing sure is . . harumph. I miss the days when they'd play just Beethoven all day, one piece at a time.