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MARY CLIFF “RETURNS” TO RADIO!! WAMU PICKS UP MARY’S TRADITIONS!

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The best news out of DC in a long, long time!!

A message from Mary Cliff:

Okay. It’s official. Traditions with Mary Cliff has moved to WAMU,Washington, DC, effective this Saturday night, 11 pm to 1 am.Guess i’ll pre-tape a week and come to Memphis.Mary Cliff, TRADITIONS

WAMU, 88.5

Washington, DC

www.marycliff.net

WAMU has set up a page on their website (click here) and hopefully this is the start of a long, long run!! WAMU, owned and operated by American University in DC since 1961, reaches an estimated 570,000 listeners each week – and they stream on the internet at www.wamu.org .

Congratulations Mary!!!!! There is hope in the world!!!

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About Ron Olesko

For over 40 years, Ron has been a radio programmer with WFDU-FM in Teaneck, New Jersey. In 2019 he created www.FolkMusicNotebook.com - a 24/7 Internet radio channel devoted to folk music and is available worldwide. Ron created WFDU-FM's TRADITIONS in 1980, a show that he continues to host and produce every Sunday afternoon from 3 to 6pm Eastern Time. He's the president of and booker for the Hurdy Gurdy Folk Music Club in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, and is a regular contributor to Sing Out! as well as the host of the Folk Music Notebook blog on this site. Ron can also be found emceeing concerts and festivals around the NYC/NJ area.

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MARY CLIFF “RETURNS” TO RADIO!! WAMU PICKS UP MARY’S TRADITIONS! — 5 Comments

  1. Mike pointed out something on the WAMU website -<br /><br />Some of you may still have questions about different shows that you would like us to carry. We’ll continue to evaluate our programming over the next few months, and as always, we’ll release any information about additional changes as soon as we have them available.<br /><br />I wish our colleagues at WETA-FM great success with their

  2. "This is not an either/or proposition."<br /><br />It just might be. I honestly do not know.<br /><br />Mike, since I have no connection with WAMU I cannot comment on your statement that WAMU "unthinkingly cut" AMERICAN ROUTES – or even if it was cut because of Mary’s show. I will take it that you have some more knowledge of this situation and WAMU’s reasoning.<br /><br />I encourage you and

  3. Ron:<br /><br />This is not an either/or proposition. It just looks that way because the WAMU program staff was in a hurry.<br /><br />WAMU added some very weak new syndicated shows before the WETA format change. Those can go now. It means the WAMU programmers must do some more extensive program re-arrangements, but so be it.<br /><br />We need both Traditions and American Routes, and WAMU needs

  4. Mike, I do think that individuals should understand that they need to make their voices heard when they feel "their" programs have been unfairly cut from a lineup – or are in danger of being cut.<br /><br />What this does point out is the fact that the radio waves have limits. If you stop to consider all the various communities that are NOT being served – and the DOZENS, perhaps HUNDREDS, or

  5. Great news indeed.<br /><br />The bad news: WAMU unthinkingly cut American Routes to make room for Traditions, as if these shows were interchangeable.<br /><br />WAMU-FM radio made some great programming changes recently, but this is not one of them. The New Orleans-produced show has many loyal listeners here, who appreciate it even more since it’s post-Katrina return to the Crescent City. Their

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