Canada's Radio 2 Getting Poor Reviews . . . and a lot of them.

Blogs are sometimes dangerous ways to communicate, especially if the public can read comments.

Canada' Radio 2 recently went through a format change for their classical radio station.  It's been the subject of letters, petitions, and protests for months.  The new show started today and it's not looking good.

A typical comment:

I tuned in to the "New 2" and heard the familiar Tom Allen and pop music that I cannot keep listening to. Music and Company had achieved an intelligent blend of jazz, classical and occasional other genres that usually kept me listening throughout the morning. Tom's new program leaves me cold.

Another:

Hey Tom - your #1 fan here. Oh I'm a sad gal this am. While so happy to still have your sparkling personality on-air, the music mix is all wrong. I agreed with another post who says mornings need to be more gentle. Music & Co. was absolutely the best part of my day. Now I think I will have to move to the classical channel. *Sigh* if it actually works (can't seem to get it to this am). I didn't mind the jazz songs, but I had to switch off as soon as I heard (shudder) Bruce Cockburn. G'bye Tom...I'm really going to miss you.

And this one:

I am bitterly disappointed in your decision to remove a classical music program from the CBC early morning programing. It was my lifeline to sanity - and the music you play now drives me insane. What is worse, is that there seems no where else to go to find classical music and opera before 10 am and after 3 pm, except on Saturday. I see this a discrimination against the faithful audience that has supported you and CBC for many years. It also shows with little or no concern about the loss it creates in the lives of housebound older people: today, alsmost everything is now geared to screaming youngsters who have IPODs and other things to listen to and are off to school anyway!! Consequently, I shall no longer listen to CBC 2 (except on Saturday afternoon), until such time as you programing resumes its more reasonable representation of listeners musical interests. So disappointed,