SATURDAY LETTERS : GOODBY TO GOOD OLD KMET

The two best things about living in Los Angeles have always been the climate and KMET-FM, at least to my way of thinking.

Now, just when I need Cynthia Fox the most, they’re all gone (and would have vanished without a trace if management had their way). Eighteen years of listening pleasure right in the dumper! A fellow might as well live in Phoenix or Houston.

A massive, sloppy raspberry to Howard Bloom (KMET general manager) and Frank Cody (program director), who are under the delusion that they handled a “painful business decision” with “taste, dignity and fairness,” and a rousing “hoo-ya!” to KLOS-FM, KLSX-FM, KHJ-TV and The Times for giving the deejays and the listeners a chance to say goodby (“The KMET-FM Story: Reflections on a Fallen Format,” by Patrick Goldstein, Deborah Caulfield and Robert Hilburn, Feb. 10).

That, Mr. Bloom and Mr. Cody, is good taste and class; just in case you would like a real, live example to study.

HENRY CARR

Wilmington