Protest worked
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Classical music radio station stayin' alive
Following heavy protest from tens of thousands of listeners, IBA decides to keep Kol Hamusica open and not merge it with another station
Classical music radio station Kol Hamusica will continue to operate, despite recent plans to shut it down or merge it with another station, Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) Director-General Mordechai Shklar announced Tuesday in a meeting of the Knesset's Education Committee.
The IBA has recently received tens of thousands of letters, emails and phone calls from listeners, urging officials to call off the planned merger between the Moreshet department, the Reshet Aleph radio station and the Kol Hamusica station.
The merger was one of the recommendations made by the Task company, which advises the IBA on reform issues, mainly based on economic considerations.
Task proposed that Kol Hamusica be shut down in order to reduce the IBA's heavy deficit and that its programs would be assimilated into the programming of united Moreshet and Reshet Aleph station, reducing its broadcasts to six hours a day.
