Boston Broadcasting Bozos: The Continuing Saga

When I got back to my Boston hotel room Friday evening, I switched on the radio and heard:
She left the suds in the bucket and the clothes hanging on the line.
As promised, country music had taken over the classical music frequency. So I fled to the new location of WCRB, and, just as Geoff Edgers had indicated, the reception was so poor that I had to reposition my radio to find a place where there was minimum static. And also as predicted, we were in the la-la land of “classics lite”: an excerpt from Tchaikovsky‘s “Serenade,” another excerpt from Stravinsky‘s “Rite of Spring,” and, of course, Vivaldi‘s “Four Seasons” (actually, just one of them—Autumn).
But fortunately, help was on the way, in the form of an e-mail from CultureGrrl reader Ben Weiss:
We do still have pretty good classical programming on GBH (89.7) during the day, and the magnificent WHRB (95.3) for the afternoon and evening: “And now, our weekly feature: ‘England before the Enlightenment,’ to be followed at 8 by our continuing survey of recent chamber works by Elliott Carter.” Hope you enjoy your stay!
I did, Ben, and I LOVE Elliott Carter. How did you know?
But actually, I was hoping that Boston had become a classical-music wasteland, so that James Levine would decide he had to stay in New York and spend more time conducting the Metropolitan Opera, instead of the Boston Symphony. No such luck.