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News Flash . . . The cat lives! It does not limp and it does not just maintain. It proudly–but humbly–moves forward with a dedicated and talented staff that leaps far and reaches higher than ever. In the past 12 months alone there were world-premiere performances on WFMT of Shulamit Ran’s and Jan Bach’s 40th-anniversary commissions and a celebration in City Council by proclamation.

There was in January the inauguration of the WFMT Fine Arts Circle, a listener member group, on which 6,000 now rely for news and programming information about WFMT. There was in October the introduction of the WFMT Ideas Network, which began distributing significant spoken word programming such as “Speakers Corner” and “City Arts of San Francisco” to more than 175 radio markets nationwide.

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