Ashville's Citizen-Times reports that WCQS license renewal is being challenged by The Ad-Hoc Committee for Responsible Public Radio. The committee says WCQS has failed to establish a community advisory board and failed to survey its listeners (assessment of community issues?).
Programming changes may be the base cause for the petition to deny the renewal. WCQS recently focused resources to enhance local news coverage. In the process they took some locally produced programs off the air. The Ad-Hoc Committee for Responsible Public Radio is led by Fred Flaxman a public radio producer and retried executive. Flaxman also complained in the petition that the station doesn’t air programs created by local independent producers, including himself. He produces a classical music program called “Compact Discoveries.” Station Manager Jody Evans says an episode of Compact Discoveries was carried by WCQS a few years ago as a special. Flaxman lists the station as carrying Compact Discoveries on his website.
Evans says all of the issues in the challenge have been addressed in the station's response.
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