Last Days
Regarding the Sept. 17 letter of Robert Goldfarb, a vice president of KFAC: Yes, the “old” KFAC did play hemorrhoid commercials. It also stayed viable and provided Los Angeles with a 24-hour-a-day classical music station. Yes, in 1987 KFAC’s new owners deleted the hemorrhoid commercials. And their sense of the value of a huge profit eventually caused classical broadcasting to be deleted.
Goldfarb states that two of the three announcers hired in 1987 have master’s degrees in music. Fred Crane, Tom Dixon, Carl Princi and Tom Cassidy with a combined 162 years of announcing on KFAC (pre-1987) do not have master’s degrees in music, but then neither did Mozart, Beethoven or Bach.
ANITA CRANE
Los Angeles
The writer is the wife of Fred Crane who was a KFAC announcer for 39 years.
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