Foundation aids Met broadcasts
A $3.5-million donation from the Annenberg Foundation will help the Metropolitan Opera continue its Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts for another season, an opera spokesman said.
The live broadcasts from Lincoln Center have been financed by ChevronTexaco Corp., but the company said in May that it would stop paying for them at the end of the 2003-04 season.
The broadcasts, carried by KUSC-FM (91.5) and 359 other U.S. radio stations, began airing in 1931 and were sponsored by Texaco beginning in 1940.
The Met is still looking for another single sponsor because the donation covers only half a year of the series, which costs $7 million for a season of 20 programs.
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