Rascal Flatts Alter, WCRB Switch

Be very, very afraid. Because today, at high noon, WCRB listeners who may be expecting Ravel will likely find themselves stuck with Rascal Flatts who, I should say, were not as annoying as on paper when featured in that Cars movie but darn it, in other contexts, should be used as one of Dick Cheney's nine truth-seeking tools.

Yes, WCRB moves from 102.5-FM to 99.5-FM. That's so classical music can reach fewer people and bad country - sorry, you won't hear the Merle, George Jones or the original Hank on the new 102.5, WKLB - can stretch into the South Shore.

Just so classical fans can be even more bummed, the Globe's story includes this section with comment from Louis F. Mercatanti Jr., president of Nassau, the company that has bought WCRB.

"As for what the new WCRB will play, Mercatanti stresses "more consistency." That means a tighter play list with less variety, he acknowledges. "It's not going to be . . . Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' over and over and over again," he says, "but listeners like familiarity."