We had lunch at the station - which is so big that there's a full restaurant in it - and good coffee. Lunch included good Dutch cheese. This is a very good thing, if you haven't had it.
American radio is rarely like this - the closest I've come is Minnesota Public Radio - a big, swank studio funded primarily by Prairie Home Companion - 'the studio that Garrison Keillor built.'
These stations are sponsored nationally - and are a unifying force for communities, states, and countries... Radios are on all day in Europe... people listen while they cook parsnips and cabbages... while they garden, while they drive.
And what can we do?
We've lost something, in the U.S., having lost these broadcasts. We hold tight to our community stations, hold tight to what we can.
We're all on-line, yes. But separately, somehow.
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