All Entries in the "Uncategorized" Category
Catching Up on Classical Radio News
Happy Friday. I hope you’re getting spring weather, wherever you are. We are looking at low 60s and sunny in Seattle this weekend.
AMPPR/MPC
Registration is now open for the Music Personnel Conference in NYC Apr. 21-23. You can go to the AMPPR website for information. Rates have been reduced this year to make it more affordable, [...]
Music Personnel Conference in NYC
The Association of Music Personnel in Public Radio (AMPPR) holds its annual meeting in NYC April 21-23. A partial agenda and more information are posted on the website now.
Here are some highlights from AMPPR President David Duff:
Fred Child, host of Performance Today will be leading an air talent “super-session”. Come and improve your on-air performance [...]
The Great Conversation
I hadn’t thought of it like this before but the scenery completely changes with a gift to these wonderful music services of ours.
WUOL in Louisville, For Example
Those of us in the biz have studied at length how classical radio can survive, or even thrive, when its main proponents are in serious decline. Alex Ross posts a scary graph in his Feb. 3rd article in the New Yorker.
Every classical organization in America should print out this graph, pin it on the bulletin board, and ponder what is to be [...]
And a Child Shall Lead Them
So, by now you’ve probably heard about the new kid on the block in Seattle. Alexander Prior, no relation to the comedian but a crazy connection to the world of method acting, is just 17 but apparently no joke. His great-great grandfather was Stanislavsky, the famous founder of a system from which method acting was [...]
Here’s Hoping for a Better Decade in Classical Radio
Happy New Year! We start the year with good news in Oxford, Mississippi where the sale of a translator by San Diego’s Christian Broadcasting has brought classical music to the town’s airwaves. If you’re in Oxford you should be able to pick up Memphis-station WKNO, a mix of NPR shows and classical music, at 103.1.
Marketing a new classical music station
Here is the third article in our series adapted from contributions to the Association of Music Personnel in Public Radio’s e-mail list. In this installment, General Manager Douglas Evans and Marketing Manager Jason Hughes discuss their promotional campaign for a brand-new all-classical station — Miami’s Classical South Florida.
In October 2007, American Public Media officially started [...]
Cape Cod Station in Bankruptcy
Classical WFCC on Cape Cod is part of a cluster of stations whose parent company, Sandab, filed for Chapter 11 protection on Wednesday. We’ll keep you posted.
Mike has an inspiring post for Monday called Keeping Classical Radio Vital for the Future, by Jack Allen, P.D. in Portland OR. It’s another example of what I consider [...]
Boston’s WCRB Sold to WGBH
Wow! Just wow.
From Radio Info.com:
Price: $14 million. Seller Nassau Broadcasting is doing a debt-for-equity swap with lender Goldman Sachs, and the biggest single station in its portfolio is commercial-classical WCRB (99.5), licensed to Lowell, MA. Now Goldman steers it to public radio/TV broadcaster WGBH, which already operates news/classical WGBH-FM (89.7) and [...]
KUSC Climbing the Charts
If you read this blog regularly you know I’m a fan of KUSC in L.A., because they don’t shy away from fresh programming and documenting what’s going on in the real classical music world, instead of pretending that the only thing people want to listen to is music they already know.
Marty Ronish wrote:
Dan O'Day wrote:
Richard Mitnick wrote:
Richard Jordan wrote:
Jack Allen wrote:
Dave Wagner wrote: