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By ELEANOR WIESE
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Several weeks ago "Music
Symposium," the five hours
cf classical music broadcast
each day on FM radio, died
quiet death. And silence
was the reason for this loss
to our area-silence from lis
teners who enjoy serious mu
sic. Bill DcMarco ol Stereo
Sound, who once managed
one of the largest classical
YU stations in California, be
lieved that in Southern Ore
gon, loo, could be found an
audience responsive to "bet
ter" music. So far nearly two
months he played on KBOY
I'M the treasures from his
high fidelity library, aug
menting the music with com
ments concerning the com
posers end performers.
Because FM radio, like any
ether medium, is a commer
cial thing dependent upon an
audience to justify any pro
gram, Mr. DeMarco asked
listeners to drop him a card,
give him a call, do anything
to show that there were listen
ers. The response? Pathetical
ly small. The radio station
received only 16 letters and
8 phone calls in two months.
Mri DeMarco fared no better.
With discouragement and
sadness, the program was
dropped.
This is perhaps just one
example of the general apathy
all over the United Stales in
regard to the development
and use of high-fidelity, dis-Inrtion-frce
FM broadcasting.
The number of FM stations
has actually declined 10 per
cent since 1948.
In other countries the sit
uation is much different.
There were only 4 FM sta
tions in all of Europe in 1950.
Today over 1000 stations are
operating in an area about
the same size as the united
Stales. In the Soviet Union,
too, FM is glowing and has
replaced AM in most urban
centers.
Although Canada claims
only one-twentieth as many
FM stations as the United
States, it has one of the long
est FM networks on the con
tinent. Until recently, the
Canadian Broadcasting Cor
poration's FM network dupli
cated the AM programming.
But because of growing inter
est in FM, the CBC now
broadcasts separate programs
on FM, primarily high-fidelity
music and live drama.
Unless the listening public
In the United States replaces
apathy with demands for
inure FM programing, we
will continue to fail behind
other countries in distortion-
free, high-fidelity broadcast
ing.
CONCERT HALL. 2 p.m
Sunday K-SHA radio. Mous-
anresky s "Night on Bald
Mountain": Offenbach's "Fan
tasics"; and Ravel's Bolero.
CONSOLE AT THE CA
THEDRAL, 4:30 p.m. Sunday
K-SHA radio. Dr. Herbert E
Richards plays on the organ
of the Cathedral of the Rock
ies in Boise, Idaho with com
mentary on the music and
composers.
UPDATE, 5 p.m. Sunday
KMED-TV. A wrap-up on the
Cuban situation and the Ecu
menical Council in Rome are
featured.
COLLEGE BOWL, 5 30 p.m.
Sunday KBES-TV. Oregon
State University, last week's
winners, meet a team from
the University of New Mex
ico.
TWENTIETH CENTURY, 6
p.m. Sunday KBES-TV. "La
val: Portrait of a Traitor"
follows the career of the man
who became Hitler's chief
pawn in the collaborationist
Vichy government of France.
MEET THE PHESS, 6 p.m.
Sunday KMED-TV. Mortimer
M. Caplin, Commissioner of
Internal Revenue and one of
the outs'mding tax experts
in the nation, will be inter
viewed. ED SULLIVAN, 8 p.m. Sun-
day KBES-TV. Guests in
clude: Al Hirt, jazz trump
eter: Jerome Hincs, Metro
politan Opera basso; Pearl
Bailey, singing comedienne;
and Maya Plisetakaya, prima
ballerina of the Bolsoi Ballet.
SHOW OF THE WEEK. 10
p.m. Sunday KMED-TV. "Mu
tiny," a dramatic interpreta
tion of the only recorded mu
tiny in U S. Navy history set
in 1842. Dana Andrews and
Robert Walker star.
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CALENDAR, 9 a.m. Mon
day KBES-TV. Publisher Al
fred A. Knopf will reminisce
about famous literary figures
aid show films of Thomas
Mann, Sigrid Undsct, Rebecca
West, Willa Cather. Elinor
Wylie and others taken by
Knopf in 1927-1932.
CHRISTMAS FANTASY,
10 a.m. Monday through Fri
day K-SHA radio. Robin Mor
row won a Peabody award
for this seasonal series pre
senting the music and legends
of Christmas.
JACK BENNY, 9:30 p.m.
Tuesday KBES-TV. Bob Hope
and Jack Benny play two
hungry sung-and-dance men.
CHET HUNTLEY REPORT
ING. 10:30 p.m. Tuesday
KMED-TV. A special report
about the Sino-lndian con
flict. Phime Minister Nehru
is interviewed in New Delhi.
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CLOSE-UP, 7 p.m. Friday
KMED-TV. "India - the Trou
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keep her democratic struc
ture. ALFRED HITCHCOCK, 10
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in which a man's wife is miss
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pears in his living room. He
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