Broadcasting Bozos, Continued

Pop trumps country trumps classical: So goes the radio format pecking order, it appears. Remember my previous posts (here and here), where I lambasted the pop-music format change of KZLA-FM, which had billed itself as “America’s most listened-to country station”?
Well, when I checked into my Boston hotel yesterday, I tuned my radio to the classical music station, WCRB, whose announcers trumpeted that “at last” they would be moving, at noon today, to 99.5-FM from 102.5.
But Geoff Edgers, writing today in the Boston Globe “Exhibitionist” blog, tells us that this is nothing to celebrate:
[The change means that] classical music can reach fewer people and bad country—sorry, you won’t hear the Merle, George Jones or the original Hank on the new 102.5, WKLB—can stretch into the South Shore.
Just so classical fans can be even more bummed, the Globe’s story includes this…comment from Louis F. Mercatanti Jr., president of Nassau, the company that has bought WCRB:
“As for what the new WCRB will play, Mercatanti stresses ‘more consistency.’ That means a tighter play list with less variety, he acknowledges. ‘It’s not going to be…Vivaldi’s Four Seasons over and over and over again,’ he says, ‘but listeners like familiarity'”…
…which. CultureGrrl says, breeds contempt. Is that why I heard “Pachelbel’s Canon” performed this morning (before the move) by John Williams conducting the Boston Pops?