I would like to respond to letters from Gene Cowell and Meagan Gregory approving of the recent changes to WUFT-FM's radio schedule. Although I'm happy that some new NPR programming has been introduced, such as "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me" and "This American Life," in other respects the changes have been for the worse for anyone with an appreciation of music. Classical music has been shunted off to HD radio, and jazz has gone away altogether.
I'm not advocating a complete return to the way things were, but it would sure be nice to hear some jazz on Friday evenings again, and something other than the BBC World News every night between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. I certainly have not found any other radio stations in our community offering classical music or quality jazz programming (smooth jazz doesn't count). Maybe a 50/50 split between news/commentary and music on the regular (non-HD) broadcast would be a better ratio for most listeners.
