Pim, you may well be correct. I've been listening to wgbh boston recently-Wright seems to have got the sequence
(ie unconnected pieces and chat format) from them. I would say that wgbh do it fairly well and are involved with
promoting local bands, but the live music is...recorded. Their discussions are on-line or on a R4-ish sister station, and the whole thing runs on public subscription (as I think 3 should) plus a bit of corporate but no ads other than
occasional mentions. Some mainstream obscurities well introduced, but nothing much post-neo-classical of course.
I wonder how the battle in Congress to save Internet radio is progressing? A bill was introduced into Congress a couple of weeks ago to try and prevent Clear Channel and Sound Exchange (the copyright quango in the U.S.) from hiking up broadcast copyright fees from which the commercial giants are exempt, which would force artist-led and esoteric stations off the air. There's been a vocal campaign thus far, unfortunately only accessible through U.S.
channels thus far, but its the definitive test case I think.
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