Should we ditch Concert FM?
John Drinnan reports:
According to Howson, Nielsen statistics show Concert reaches 5 per cent of New Zealand listeners.
Concert costs about $5 million, so those listeners are in a privileged position.
Some people believe that as a public station Concert does a brilliant job on a remarkably small budget.
I don’t see in today’s age there is a need for taxpayers to fund a station such as Concert FM.
I do accept the case for National Radio, as that is about making sure we have in depth coverage of New Zealand news and current affairs.
But Concert FM plays basically German classical music. Now I happen to quite like my Mozart, but you don’t need a $5 million station for New Zealanders to be able to listen to it. Almost every piece of classical music in history is available for free and can be streamed, made into playlists and the like.
This is the playlist for Friday:
- Wagner
- Mozart
- Schubert
- Beethoven
- Mendelssohn
- Marais
- Bach
- Hayden
- Verdi
- Gershwin
etc etc. Why not get rid of Concert FM and put the money saved into beefing up National Radio?