Research

Unpacking the Classical Workforce Survey: A Few Additional Thoughts

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Classical Music Rising’s Workforce Survey, which I blogged about here and wrote about more extensively in Current, has already been making waves in the classical radio community.  To recap ever so briefly, the survey shows that over half of classical radio personnel are white men over 50.  Station leaders anonymously quoted in the survey are concerned about this for two main reasons: a) a looming talent vacuum and the potential for the classical format to be eliminated from their stations when older classical announcers retire or die, and b) older staff are … Continue Reading

Classical Music Rising’s Workforce Report is Out – The Results are Unsettling and Unsurprising

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A little over a year ago, the announcement was made by Station Resource Group (SRG) that the Classical Music Rising initiative had been formed, and the search was on for a project director who would lead representatives from participating stations in working groups that would help set the course for classical music radio in the coming years.   Classical Music Rising is now in full swing, and one of its first big reports has just been compiled: a survey of the classical music radio workforce in the United States.  This is something I … Continue Reading

Classical Music: Could There Be an App for That?

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First of all, sorry for the hiatus!  Took a week off in early October to visit family and friends across New England, then upon returning it was time for WFIU’s pledge drive, which consumed many of my waking hours for eleven days.  I’ve been playing catch-up ever since, and am just now getting around to blogging again.  I have already blogged about the Coleman Insights survey data that was presented at PRPD 2014, and in that post I reflected on the way classical music stations market themselves.  Now I’d like to explore … Continue Reading

Tom Taylor Now Newsletter

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If you’re a regular reader of Scanning the Dial you’ve benefited for years from the excellent work of Tom Taylor in keeping us up-to-date on radio news.  Last fall, I lost him.  I always used to cite his Radio-info.com column but just like a station changing format, overnight it changed to a newsletter that doesn’t help us in the classical realm. Well, Tom got in touch yesterday and he has a new newsletter called “Tom Taylor Now,” and it’s the outstanding work we’ve always relied on.  He’ll keep you informed about the FCC, how radio is … Continue Reading

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