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Confessions of a Newbie Classical Announcer

Chloe Veltman is a blogger on ArtsJournal.com and at VoiceBox – The Radio Show, but she’s also a new classical radio announcer on KALW in San Francisco.  She agreed to be a guinea pig on this blog and reveal her innermost fears and joys at this new experience.

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 [...]

Bach to Byte in Seattle

Seattle held a technology-classical music summit recently and longtime Seattle music critic Melinda Bargreen wrote up a review that I think has general interest for other communities.  It also adds to the thread we’ve been discussing.  To keep it easier to read, I’m going to print it here in full text after the fold, not [...]

Gleanings from a community radio conference

Thanks to Mona Seghatoleslami, an announcer and producer at West Virginia Public Broadcasting, for contributing this post about what to listen to from this year’s National Federation of Community Broadcasters conference. — Mike
The National Federation of Community Broadcasters held its conference earlier this month in Portland. It’s now posted information from conference sessions online. [...]

More from the Music Personnel Conference

This is the final post in the series by Mona Seghatoleslami of West Virginia Public Broadcasting summarizing sessions at this year’s Music Personnel Conference. Many thanks to Mona for sharing her thoughts and observations! You’ll find links to her previous posts at the end of this wrap-up.
One day of the conference was dedicated to all [...]

Mona’s AMPPR takeaway

Part 2 of 3 — By Mona Seghatoleslami, West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Spring is in the air, and spring fund drives are on the air on public radio stations around the country. Stations that align their drives with nationally coordinated dates will be starting this Friday (March 28), while others have worked out their own [...]

What Mona Brought Home from AMPPR (Part 1 of 2)

This guest post was written by Mona Seghatoleslami, a classical announcer, producer and blogger at West Virginia Public Broadcasting.

I’ve just had my first day of work since I got back from this year’s Association of Music Personnel in Public Radio conference in Fort Worth, Texas. I want to do everything at once; I’m really [...]