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   Bice to martin@address-in-sig.invalid   
   Re: FZ on NPR this afternoon   
   03 Nov 17 22:50:22   
   
   From: eichler2@comcastsucks.net   
      
   On Thu, 2 Nov 2017 23:08:56 -0000 (UTC), Martin Gregorie   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Thu, 02 Nov 2017 21:01:03 +0000, Bice wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Yeah, my wife was upset when the local NPR station went from a format of   
   >> news during the day and classical music in the evenings and night to a   
   >> 24 hour news format.   
   >>   
   >> There used to be an NPR station from Philly, I think, that I could pick   
   >> up here that used to play a lot of jazz in the evenings.   
   >   
   >There's even some uncontaminated news feeds: the BBC World Service for   
   >one.   
      
   And to bring this full circle, our local NPR station can't afford   
   round-the-clock staffing, so from around midnight to 6am they switch   
   to the BBC World Service.  I usually hear the switchover from that   
   back to the local coverage as I'm driving to work in the morning.   
      
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