Reply #124: asking an NPR affiliate to drop ME and ATC is like asking it to commit suicide.

[mwooldri]

For a lot of public stations, especially rural ones, ME and ATC is their backbone. When your counter programming on the commercial stations is Limbaugh & Co., the main NPR programmes are very liberal.

With the small stations their money goes to pay the light bill and NPR. There isn't the cash for much else.

At least WUNC does the decent thing @ 10pm and hands over to BBC World Service. WFDD tries to fill in with classical because there is no analog fm alternative.

Yes, let the local affiliates know. If you have the cash and your station is airing some NPR overnight classical you could always give enough for them to switch to something else.