KKBT’s Ratings

Regarding Claudia Puig’s “KPWR Back on Top, Format-Flippers Fall”:

Jan. 4 was one of the rare days on which some of the good guys triumphed over villains.

Dictator Noriega was under detention in Florida. And the Arbitron ratings informed us that the pillagers of KFAC were rewarded with the loss of nearly half of their listenership, being taught in the process that the millions they spent in public hype and “research” about everything but musical values were a destructive waste.

The same ratings also rewarded the enlightened self-interest of KKGO with an increase during its transition to classical music.

Maybe the recent outbreak of political pluralism in Eastern Europe can give us hope that the subjugation of our arts-driven culture by the dictatorship of MBAs with their weapons of mediocrity need not be complete, or forever.

ELLIOT KAPLAN, Woodland Hills