Concertzender victim of it's own succes

[otterhouse]

Hello all,

A bizarre situation has developed in the Netherlands. Everywhere in the world, classical broadcasters are shutting down, because of dropping listening figures.
In the Netherlands however, the Concertzender, who many of you might know because of there splendid internet channels, has to shut down because it has become too popular...
Dutch Public radio host's the Concertzender, and working with 150 volunteers and a handful of paid staff members, they operate on a basis of 500.000 euro a year.
Cable companies in the Netherlands are now opting to broadcast the concertzender, instead of the non-classical Radio 6 (operating on a budget many times of the CZ!!).
Instead of looking for a good solution, the co-ordinator of radio 6 just wants to pull the plug from the Concertzender... To make things even weirder, a message explaining the situation
with a call for support had to be removed from the homepage !!! The call was mirrored on an other site, and a small flood of support letters came in, prompting the board of management of the Dutch public radio to postpone their decision. Because the Concertzender has also a large international following, could you please write a mail to:

mening@concertzender.nl

And write something like: "Please don't pull the plug from the Concertzender"!
(and a "because... " after that is also an option

For those of you who never heard of the concertzender:

http://www.concertzender.eu/?language=en


I hope I can count on your support!!


Greetings,
Rolf

[Corno Dolce]

Aloha Rolf,

I have let them know in the strongest possible terms that Concertzender is to be kept "on-the-air".

Cheerio!

CD