Re: The Fate of WEVD

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

Trudele,

Is that the one that has a poem with all the children's names?

Lorele

Trudi Goodman wrote:. 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
> >
> >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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