MinnPost.com checks in on the four-year battle waged by fans of erstwhile WCAL-FM in the Twin Cities, a classical station that was sold to Minnesota Public Radio and turned into an eclectic-format music outlet.
In this case, Beethoven refuses to roll over. Save WCAL, a group dedicated to reversing the transaction, is asking a Rice County District Court to rescind the $10.5 million sale and turn the proceeds over to a charitable trust.
“The resolution our organization has always preferred, and we have never wavered from this position, is that the sale would be voided,” said Ruth Sylte, director of Save WCAL.
If anything, the saga demonstrates that classical fans can be an especially passionate bunch when wronged. In the public radio hierarchy, they come in somewhere between opera lovers (who I guess qualify as a subset) and devotees of Amy Goodman, host of the left-leaning news show Democracy Now! And I’ve heard stories of the “Bluegrass Mafia” as well.
Here’s the full article. And speaking of Twitter, the Save WCAL campaign is Twittering.
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