Listener Comments

Yesterday afternoon I heard a vocal essay on 'New Orleans as the creator of Urban culture in the USA'. It was one of the most moving things I ever heard....

Can I get a transcript?...You are all doing a wonderful job staying on the air for this city. Thank You

Carleton T

Glad to have you guys back and going strong.

While driving back into the city . . ., I caught the last few minutes of a commentary about the importance of New Orleans to the rest of the country. . . . It was absoultely incredible.  Thanks for bringing it to us.

Ronnie J

I'm a regular listener from Mandeville to your radio station and am extremely happy that y'all were back on the air so quickly after Katrina; and hope you get to come home sooner than later.  The city is in desperate need of getting their talent back. . . .

Thanks again!
Monica C.

Just thought you might like to know that I'm listening from a NATO command in Lisbon, Portugal! I'm originally from Natchitoches, but stationed over here.

Cheers,
Rachel T

I note that the programming has shifted a bit since the temporary move to Atlanta.  I just wanted to compliment you on it.  It is refreshing.  The positive attitude and quips shine through the broadcast.  The music is great.  The mix of music is great.  All of you are doing an absolutely terrific job over there under highly stressful conditions.  So, my compliments . . . to all of you - particularly Jack Hopke and James Arey, who seem to be the ones on-air most of the time I am listening - and I listen quite a bit.

Paul S
Houma

Thanks so much for broadcasting from afar - I'm sure it must be very trying for your small staff to live in Atlanta and away from "home ground" - you all are doing a great job.

Allison P
New Orleans

To all of you warriors for UNO and New Orleans. . . . I just want to assure you guys that I was so over joyed when I finally heard my 89.9 on!!! Now I want to assure you that yes I and many other listeners are counting the days when we can listen to you and know that you are home in New Orleans.

Eating your bagnees and drinking coffee Orleans style.

Because this is [what it] will take to bring new Orleans back, since the odds of the federal government and even more bleakly opinions of other states of the Great USA are so RELUCTANT to approve, help or give a good care about New Orleans and its people and culture.

Blistering? you bet

Helenisa in New Orleans

First of all, welcome back to our airwaves. A relief to have found Morning Edition and Jack and James safe and sound when we returned to New Orleans in October. Was creepy to have silence from 899 and only the storm-heads from
. . . talking about mold non-stop just after the floods. Glad things are starting to return to normal.

But we must ask: why do you have James doing jazz now? You've taken your prize racehorse and put him in charge of the glue factory. We were not aware New Orleans needed another lite-jazz station. . . .

Karla R
P.R. R
Jason R

Everyone,   Just wanted you to know how much I am enjoying the broader music programming.  I am basically a classical musician,  but really enjoy hearing the excellent jazz that you are now putting inbetween classical programming.  Hope that you will also insert some world music,  renaissance polyphony,  more choral and vocal selections.  Thanks for what you have done to keep WWNO on the air during the recent unpleasantness.  It has meant a great deal to all of us to come back and have this important part of our normal existance.     Jim H

Kudos to the Cub Reporter. I am glad that WWNO is on the air (even if it is from Atlanta). It helps to have some normalcy in my life to listen to Morning Edition while preparing breakfast and driving to work.

One feature that I truly enjoy is the amount of local news that is now on the air. I hope that WWNO will continue with this tradition after you get back to your UNO offices. Prior to Katrina, the lack of local news was one of the things that I missed on my New Orleans public radio station - compared to the public radio station in Gainesville and elsewhere where there was a university campus and a journalism school with aspiring reporters.

Thanks,
Harley W.

My husband (Jim) and I are long-time supporters of WWNO. We are so happy that you are back on the air and have been listening ever since you returned to the air. . . .

Any word or idea on when you will be able to return to your studios in N.O.? We miss you, but we are pleasantly surprised at the good and up-to-date local information you are passing on to us, just as though you were here. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, GENTLEMEN! And God bless you all. We appreciate the sacrifices you have made to stay on the air. . . . Have a Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Sheryl and Jim A.
Kenner

You are wonderful and I love hearing the familiar voices with the added local news. Thank you!!!! I look forward to WWNO's homecoming.

Jean F.
New Orleans

I am a daily listener to WWNO and am most greatful that it is back on the air and going strong.

A long time supporter in Picayune, MS
Cecile I.

I have been a long time monthly contributor to NPR-WWNO.  I understand that Katrina has changed many aspects of our lives, and I am willing to accept some of the resulting changes with good humor.

Having a mixture of jazz and classical music during most of the broadcast day and night, however, is not pleasant to me despite my attempts at reconciling this change. . . .

Please consider experimenting with mixing us all up later.  Right now bring back programming that has stood the test of time in our metropolitan area.  We are all clutching to find things that are the way they once were.

W.L.W. Mandeville

The other evening a group of musical persons gathered to enjoy live Mozart, etc. and the subject of your programming from Atlanta came up.  It was repeatedly expressed that WWNO has changed its format to a Jazz and then classical nature.  While it may seem nice to some that one can  turn on the early morning or later evening programing and hear all that jazz, to most of us gathered, it is inappropriate to your classical format.  We sincerely hope that you are intending to return to a heavy  classical music format. 

Thanks for all the good work you all are doing there in Atlanta, we await your return with "baited breath".

Eugene K.
New Orleans

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