{"id":2453518,"date":"2020-01-21T21:28:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T04:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/format-change-a-blow-to-aspen-public-radio-community\/"},"modified":"2020-01-22T07:07:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T14:07:46","slug":"format-change-a-blow-to-aspen-public-radio-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/format-change-a-blow-to-aspen-public-radio-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Format change a blow to Aspen Public Radio community"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I am very disturbed by the changes made by the radio staff at KAJX\/KCJX to remove local music programming and replace it with syndicated talk programs such as \u201cFresh Air\u201d and international news that you can stream elsewhere. The presenters of Jazz from Aspen (I am a regular listener of Stu\u2019s and Jeannie\u2019s programs) are an amazing group of volunteers and community members. I also was saddened when the Sunday morning \u201cPass the Mustard Bluegrass\u201d was curtailed last year. I am happy it found a spot at KDNK.<\/p>\n

BBC is on every night. \u201cFresh Air\u201d is already programmed for early evenings and on weekends. To learn we are losing our music programming for more programming of Fresh Air makes no sense to me. There are other examples such as \u201cWait Wait Don\u2019t Tell Me\u201d weekly episodes that are repeated over the weekend.<\/p>\n

I did intend to complete the 2019 radio listener survey. It focused too much on delivery formats and was going to take me an hour or more to complete. I don\u2019t remember being asked to rank which programming I preferred. I was saddened when Krista Tibbet\u2019s \u201cOn Being\u201d program was removed. I wrote to the station expressing my disappointment and did get a reply but not a satisfactory response of why it was dropped.<\/p>\n

Do we really have to accept this as the final decision? No, not if we decide to withhold contributions during 2020 fund raising. The soul of Aspen Public Radio is being ripped out and KAJX will soon become a very generic radio station on the path it is pursuing.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Maddie Vincent of The Aspen Times for her in-depth reporting<\/a> of this community loss.<\/p>\n

Emily Miller<\/p>\n

Glenwood Springs<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am very disturbed by the changes made by the radio staff at KAJX\/KCJX to remove local music programming and replace it with syndicated talk programs such as \u201cFresh Air\u201d and international news that you can stream elsewhere. The presenters of Jazz from Aspen (I am a regular listener of Stu\u2019s and Jeannie\u2019s programs) are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2453518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 19:56:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453547,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453518\/revisions\/2453547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}