Comments on: Are local NPR stations in trouble?

By: hburgnews.com » WVTF in H’burg?

hburgnews.com » WVTF in H’burg? — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:31:00 +0000

[...] written about WMRA news, programming and the state of public radio here before. Today a reader pointed out to me that WVTU (WVTF), Virginia Tech’s public radio [...]

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By: David Miller

David Miller — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:41:58 +0000

People really leave the radio on for their animals?

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By: Renee

Renee — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:58:46 +0000

I’m sure a lot of people that listen to NPR either listen in their car or on traditiona radios. With stations that do offer digital radio content, the only time I really use that venue is if I’m in my office listening on headphones.

Also, I know a lot of people leave NPR on for their pets (seriously, they had a whole drive dedicated to that!).

It does look like the local stations need to step up their unique content, though.

Maybe there can be a ‘local station stream’ that plays only the local content from around the country as a separate online station?

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By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:49:29 +0000

I don’t know. The main times I listen are on my clock radio when getting up in the morning and when I’m in my car. Neither lend themselves to streaming and I don’t see a scenario any time in the near future when they will. The only time I have access to streaming in fact is at home when playing on the internet or at work and I rarely if ever can spare the extra band-width to do it so I think our local station is safe for now. I would like more local content though. :-)

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