Re: The Fate of WEVD

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

    So sad!!! You'd think that in a city as Jewish as NY, there would be 
more uproar about this. I remember when the Forvarts came out with an 
English edition, as much as it was easier to read....I missed struggling 
through the Yiddish one, which suddenly became very unavailable at New 
Stands(in favor of the English edition). I have a wonderful music 
compilation tape,"Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen," which a woman Radio producer put 
together about 25 years ago...it has audio of some of the old, great WEVD 
commercials.
      Trudi the G

>From: Sapoznik (at) aol(dot)com
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: The Fate of WEVD
>Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 17:55:42 EDT
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>Today's New York Times carries the story about the final fate of New York
>station WEVD. Sam Norich, chairman of the board of the Forward Association
>has announced that as of September 1, 2001 Disney/ESPN will assume all
>programming of WEVD, making it the flagship station of their national 
>sports
>network.  Ownership  will, for now,  remain with the Forward Association.
>Disney reserves the right to purchase the station in the future, until 
>which
>time the station will continue using its historic call letters named for 
>one
>time American Socialist leader Eugene Victor Debs.
>Part of the change will see longtime WEVD employees replaced by new ESPN
>staff. The Forward Hour, the venerable WEVD Yiddish offering and the last 
>of
>the station's historic Jewish shows, will be shopped to another local AM
>station and will continue broadcasting.
>The station which once contested its license suspension by the FCC noting
>that "WEVD must survive as the one place where Capitalism cannot lay its
>brutal paw..." and would not be reporting "...the results of polo matches"
>will now be the flagship of the nation's major sports network run by a huge
>conglomerate corporation.
>How the irony  gods must be laughing.....
>
>Henry Sapoznik
>Co-Producer "Yiddish Radio Project" National Public Radio/All Things
>Considered
>Spring, 2002
>Author  "Klezmer! Jewish Music From Old World to Our World" (Schirmer 
>Books)
>Founder/Director "KlezKamp: The Yiddish Folk Arts Program"
>KlezKamp 17: December 23-28, 2001 www.livingtradtions.org
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