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Handsome Payoff. To FCC Chairman Newton Minow, WFMT has long been a sort of vast tasteland. Chicagoan Minow admires the station because it is making what he calls "a real cultural attack." Its programming is about 80% classical music, and the other 20% includes shows of uniformly high quality, ranging from plays and readings by minor and major poets to heady discussions and adequate but not repetitive news. Most celebrated WFMT character is Studs Terkel, who runs a daily 10-11 a.m. program of literate talk with both itinerant and local celebrities, such as Tennessee Williams and Chicago Novelist Nelson...
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