San Francisco Classical Still in Flux

By on | January 27, 2012 in | Comments { 0 }

From Tom Taylor at Radio-Info.com: the classical listening community and the displaced adult alternative community are both unhappy in San Francisco. First of all KUSF listeners are still bummed about the way Entercom and USF dumped their adult alternative programming with no warning and moved KDFC to the KUSF frequency at 90.3.  It’s sort of convoluted. [...]

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Like Classical Radio? Move to Finland.

By on | January 27, 2012 in | Comments { 0 }

According to an online Helsinki news source, 8 percent of Finnish people listen to classical music (and jazz) radio, and they listen an average of 3 hours and 8 minutes a day.   You can compare that to an American station.  I’m not sure of the average time spent listening [TSL] – maybe somebody can find that number [...]

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The BBC Takes the Lead

By on | January 27, 2012 in | Comments { 0 }

It’s not so common anymore to see a classical radio station lead a major arts festival, but the BBC is doing just that.  You can read the full story here. Leading up to the the London 2012 Festival and the Cultural Olympiad, the “Beeb” has more than 100 live performances taking place across the UK on the [...]

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Is News/Talk the “Tyranny of the Majority?”

By on | January 24, 2012 in | Comments { 0 }

There’s an interesting post on BuffaloNews.com today by Jeff Simon.  I think his hyperbole is tongue-in-cheek, but he has some intriguing thoughts.  Simon bemoans the whittling away of jazz and blues on Buffalo’s stations: …no one ever understood the inherent flaw in American democracy better than Alexis de Tocqueville, whose 1835 “Democracy in America” tells you most [...]

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KUSC Leading the Way Again

By on | January 20, 2012 in | Comments { 0 }

Business Wire reports that KUSC, that intrepid Los Angeles classical station with the gigantic audience, is joining the iHeartRadio digital platform.  You can listen online at iHeartRadio.com, where you can customize your listening and even make your own radio station.  I’m not exactly sure how it works, because when I searched for KUSC it took me to a generic [...]

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