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News from WCLV
I’m moving this from the comments to a post. Thanks to Robert Conrad of WCLV: WCLV TO MOVE FACILITIES TO THE IDEA CENTER ON PLAYHOUSE SQUARE IN DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND It was announced on Tuesday, August 10, 2010, that WCLV 104.9, northeast Ohio’s classical music station, will be moving its studios and offices from the current [...]
More from AMPPR
I asked some of the attendees at the AMPPR conference in NYC to write reports for this blog. Here is the first of two installments: From John Pitman, Music Director at All Classical in Portland OR: While visiting the facilities of WQXR/WNYC, I felt like I was walking the halls of some vast intergalactic public radio space [...]
Uh-oh. Pay-for-Play in Seattle
It was too good to be true. One of the local TV stations in Seattle, KING 5 started a local arts show. But it turns out, this is not really a news/feature program, but rather an infomercial paid for by the 5th Avenue Theater to promote its own shows. When the theater doesn’t need the airtime, it ”rents” the [...]
WQXR/WNYC: Report from the Music Personnel Conference
The Music Personnel Conference is not just a chance for those of us in the radio biz to get together with old friends. It’s also a place to discuss best practices in our industry and to refill the well when the daily grind has depleted it. UPDATE: Here’s a timely article in the NY Times.
Blogging from WQXR/WNYC
Hello, A quick note from the Music Personnel Conference in New York City. Today was the first day of the Association of Music Personnel in Public Radio annual conference. Despite the difficulties in the industry that Jack wrote about yesterday, the mood is very positive here.
Big News in Seattle
SEATTLE, Wash.—March 23, 2010—KING FM, Seattle’s iconic classical music radio station, announced today that it intends to become a listener-supported public radio station beginning in July 2011.
WQUB in Quincy, IL Losing its Local Hosts
From Mick Freeman at WQUB, via the AMPPR listserv: Sadly WQUB is taking an unusual step on June 1st and firing all on-air staff… Quincy is in the bottom left corner of Illinois, close to Missouri. An article in the Quincy Herald-Whig says that WGEM (news and sports) will handle the programming. “We’re doing this [...]
How Many Are Listening to Radio? Who’s Making Money?
Some surprising statistics from a Jan. 19 post in radio-info.com. Look carefully at where the real revenue is. I would say radio is not dead yet!
Using the Airwaves to Raise Money for Haiti
The National Association of Broadcasters is encouraging stations to use the power of their airwaves to help with the Haitian relief efforts, but if you are a public station be warned that you can’t just do on-air fundraising without FCC approval.
WQXR Tops the Charts
For all the grumbling in New York City about the new WQXR, the news is pretty fabulous. The station ranked No. 1 of ALL public radio stations in the December Arbitron listings. And people say that classical music on the radio is dying. hah!
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