ANOTHER VICTORY: WJCT, NPR Affiliate, CONVERTS TO NEWS-TALK. (TALKERS MAGAZINE)

It takes a village.  And lots of complaining.

Over the past several years, I've filed complaints with the Federal Communications Commission, the Ombudsman for the Corporation for Broadcasting, and WJCT station management.

1. Poor quality programming.  
2. Maladroit coverage of news events in St. Johns County and St. Augustine.  
3. Acceptance of press releases as news.  
4. Long outages when defective waterlogged transmitter was down, sometimes lasting hours or days,.  

From Talkers Magazine, comes news that WJCT is changing its ways -- it will dump the repetitive music format, move it to another channel, and give us NPR quality 24/7.

Three cheers!


From Talkers Magazine:

The Jacksonville Daily Record reportsthat non-commercial WJCT, Jacksonville is transitioning to an “all-news and talk radio format,” effective July 13. The NPR-affiliate station, which will re-brand as “WJCT News 89.9,” will add a midday newscast and 13 national news programs from U.S. and Canadian public media outlets. Corporation president David McGowan comments, “The growing need for sources of news and information that are deeply thoughtful, unfailing in the pursuit of truth and universally available has never been clearer than it is now.”