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Dear Friends of EMUSIC, I am in need of all the help I can get to save my radio program. To understand the issues, here is the plea that I've sent to my local listeners. If you listen to EMUSIC by computer or are a musician or record label whose music is played on my radio program, please take the time to read this. I hope that everyone else will excuse my use of bandwidth for such selfish reasons. Cheers, Bill Fox http://soundscapes.us/bill === Dear Friends, Perhaps you have heard about a proposed merger between WDIY radio and WLVT television. It is my opinion that this is nothing more than a thinly veiled take over attempt that, in the long run, would eliminate the community aspects of WDIY. Shows such as EMUSIC would be in grave danger since they are hosted and produced by the community volunteers who have been the heart and soul of WDIY programming. WDIY's Bylaws state that the main purpose of WDIY is to be run by community volunteers and to present local programming that is not generally available. This is certainly contrary to how WLVT is run. The two, vastly different cultures would clash if WDIY and WLVT were to merge. I don't mean to say that there is anything wrong with WLVT or its programming. I'm just saying that WDIY's purpose and way of doing things are very foreign to WLVT management and that they have no allegiance to the WDIY philosophy. And since WLVT has a budget that is ten times the size of WDIY's, guess who would control the purse strings and be in charge of the resulting single organization? Do not take my word on this. Instead, you should make up your own mind. But please be sure that you get all of the facts and sift through the fictions that are acting as a smoke screen to clear thinking. I implore everyone who listens to WDIY to attend the membership and listener meeting at Godfrey Daniels on Monday, September 13, at 7:00 pm. Godfrey Daniels is located at: 7 East Fourth Street Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015-1601 610-867-2390 If you have strong feelings about this proposed merger, please make your feelings known to WDIY, its staff, and board members. You are the biggest part of the community in COMMUNITY Public Radio, WDIY. You must fight to save this precious Lehigh Valley gem. As Joni Mitchell said, "You don't know what you've got 'till it's gone." Only your actions can preserve the WDIY you love. You must voice your opinion while you still can. WDIY Contact information: 301 Broadway Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015 610-694-8100 610-954-9474 fax info@wdiyfm.org http://wdiy.org Although I am restricted by WDIY Guidelines from voicing my opinions on the air, I am free to speak my mind in my private life. Therefore, I need you to spread the word to as many listeners as possible. The more listener reaction there is, the more weight your voice will carry, forcing the WDIY board of directors to listen to reason. Musically yours, Bill Fox Host of EMUSIC