Please send me the date of the next FCC public comment period scheduled for WFCR so that I can mark it in my calendar.

Your cancellation of Valley Folk clearly decreases your local public service since Valley Folk is the the only major local radio program regularly covering a broad spectrum of folk/acoustic/singer- songwriter genres, interviews including local musicians, weekly listings of what performers are coming to local venues, often with samples of those performers' music - encouraging people to attend local live performances.

Telling people to listen to programs from other service areas that have not done to their service areas what you did to your service area, or to listen to national feeds, is just not going to cut it.

Telling people to listen to programs on the internet (assuming they have the computer capability to do so) instead of on the publicly owned local airwaves is also not going to cut it.

You state that "WFCR's goal is to serve our mission, to provide the area with diverse news, information, music and cultural programs ..." and then freely admit that, in cutting Valley Folk, "Part of the rationale behind these changes is to make the programming we offer more consistent." and "Classical music and jazz are central parts of our programming and mission." Clearly you chose to increase consistency by reducing diversity, as well as reducing local service.

I hope you reconsider your decision to eliminate Valley Folk from your local service programming before the next FCC public comment period scheduled for WFCR.

Besides the well-known boilerplate, I eventually got the bad news:

> The next public comment period for WFCR will be in December 2013, when we next apply to renew our FCC license

In between, my e-mails questioned the favoritism shown to Tertulia:

Is the rumor I heard true that a decision has been made to reverse the decision to entirely dump Tertulia but not to reverse the decision to dump Valley Folk?

After all of the rationale you gave re: cancelling Tertulia and all of the reasons given by persons like myself for keeping Valley Folk, I (and the larger WFCR listenership) would be more than mildly curious as to what factors led to the unequal treatment of these two programs.