Along with many Monterey Bay listeners, we tuned into 103.9FM Monday evening to enjoy a bit of Mozart with our dinner, only to hear—gasp!—elevator muzak from somewhere in the 70s. What had happened?
This is what happened. The Central Coast’s only classical music station abruptly morphed into a soft rock, contemporary oldies station. No warning, nothing. “It is with great regret that we must tell you the station’s format has been changed,” was what we found on the station’s website yesterday.
We are not amused. Guess we are not the cultured community of arts lovers we always pretended to be. Another sign that we are being forced into collective homogeneity.
This statement is not precisely correct:
The Central Coast’s only classical music station abruptly morphed into a soft rock, contemporary oldies station.
The part that is incorrect is that KBOQ was not the only classical music station originating from the Central Coast. The other and still existing classical music station is KAZU HD2 Classical available on the web or an HD radio. Hear it on the web at:
http://www.kazu.org/classical
As it makes clear on its web site:
KAZU CLASSICAL delivers classical radio 24 hours a day, 7 days a week broadcast digitally and online. Our classical broadcast is conveniently accessible online by clicking the “Listen Live” button on the left of this page, or by tuning an HD Digital Radio to KAZU HD 2. However, you choose to listen, we welcome you and hope you enjoy Monterey’s newest classical music station.
So sad to have no more kitschy Strauss waltzes to offer a Viennese day dream on the car ride home.