All Entries in the "Commercial radio" Category

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 to lower costs,” [...]

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!

AMPPR in NYC, and Some Bits of News

Great news from David Duff, President of the Association of Music Personnel in Public Radio: 

This year’s MPC will be in New York City, in the Greene Performance Space at WNYC/WQXR. Dates for the conference will be April 21-23, 2010.
We’ll be reducing the registration fee this year to assist stations affected by the economy (aren’t we [...]

Boston’s Classical Shapeshifting – Updated

Update 12/18: A new article in the Boston Globe here…
Before I talk about Boston, I want to thank those of you who made suggestions about better Xmas programming.  Even without actually hearing the music you suggested, I can hear it in my head and it makes me smile.  The wonderful trio from Berlioz’s L’enfance du [...]

You Are Old, Father William, the Walrus Said

With apologies to Lewis Carroll for conflating his poems, and thanks to alert reader Dorron Katzin, I’d like to call your attention to a new study by Walrus Research, demonstrating that those of us who like classical music on the radio are aging.  In fact, those who don’t like classical music on the radio are [...]

St. Louis to lose its classical station, KFUO

It’s official: St. Louis’s KFUO-FM, that city’s commercial all-classical station, will be sold to a Christian broadcaster, pending FCC approval. The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has agreed to sell the station to Gateway Creative Broadcasting for $18 million and interest.

Seattle: KING-FM Redux

If you’re following the story on Seattle’s legacy station KING-FM, there’s a well-researched article by Feliks Banel in Seattle’s  highly respected Seattle newsblog Crosscut.  You can access the article here.

Update on Seattle

I spoke this morning with Bryan Lowe, Program Director of KING-FM, who wanted me to clarify the situation in Seattle.  His words: