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 Radio Ranch location in Warrensville Heights to the Idea Center on Playhouse Square in downtown Cleveland, the home of ideastream, Cleveland’s public broadcasters WVIZ/PBS and 90.3 WCPN FM.

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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 station:  multiple floors, corridors, elevators, seemingly uncountable staff… it was most impressive.

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Guest Post on Programming – Must Read

One of our own, General Manager Jeff Skibbe from KXMS in southern Missouri has written this guest post on programming.  Mille grazie, Jeff!

“Qube Connections” by Jeff Skibbe

I have always been a fan of British TV’s James Burke, the science historian whose episodes of the series “Connections” famously began with a thread of an idea upon which Burke would weave a rich tapestry of cause and effect in the worlds of science and technology.  If you haven’t seen the 1978 original or any of its sequels, you should investigate getting a subscription to Netflix soon.

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