Commentator decries WGCU decision

A music teacher in Naples, Fla., sounds off in the Naples Daily News about WGCU’s decision to drop classical music from its analog FM signal:

Telling people that they will need to buy a special converter to receive classical music that is being outsourced from Minnesota is not a solution. That approach only helps to promote the idea that classical music is an elitist form of entertainment.

I think that Tardiff and the management of WGCU have succumbed to the lowest common denominator, money, which always wins out in the end. But as a university-based public radio station, part of WGCU’s responsibility to the community — the community that provides part of its funding through their tax dollars — is to provide artistic-based programming.

Read the full commentary here.