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A much more promising reply from good ol' Marnie:

I'm curious as to why WNED does not air Soundstage as often as other PBS stations in other areas of the country. According to the main PBS website, the new season is premiering in the next month or
>so, yet you have no scheduled airdates.
>
>http://www.pbs.org/wttw/soundstage/featured.htm
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>Heart, Chris Isaak, Lindsey Buckingham, John Mayer - wow - this is going to be a great season! I really hope I am able to see these episodes.
>It would be a shame to miss them because my local affiliate decided it wasn't worthy to be put into the schedule.
>
>Thank you for your time,
>Paula

Dear Paula,

Thanks for writing again. We broadcast Soundstage but the series is shown at 1:00am. The reason for such a late hour is that when we have placed the program in a primetime slot, no one watched it.
Much of our audience is older (like 65 +) and they prefer Lawrence Welk to Soundstage. Rather than not broadcast the series at all, we show it at a late hour. Since your last e-mail, WNED's
Director of Broadcasting informed me that the third season of Soundstage will begin in August 2005. The dates are still to be announced. Please contact us again with your programming questions,
comments and suggestions. We always enjoy hearing from our viewers and members.

Marnie Davis
Viewer Services Coordinator
WNED
Horizons Plaza
P.O. Box 1263
Buffalo, NY 14240

1am is better than nothing, I supppose.