Station Beat: St. Louis’s KFUO still in play; KCRW plans new stream

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It’s the end of the week and still no word on the fate of KFUO-FM, the commercial classical station in St. Louis that might be sold by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. This even-handed editorial in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said the synod’s board was expected to decide yesterday, but I don’t see any updates online. In a poll tallied up this week, a majority of Post-Dispatch readers opposed the sale of the station.

The Radio and Internet Newsletter brings news of a forthcoming Web stream from KCRW in Santa Monica, Calif. — a station that is widely recognized as a pioneer and innovator in online programming. Says RAIN of the new Eclectic24 stream, which launches on Labor Day:

KCRW is not simply repackaging its on-air broadcast into an Internet stream. Instead, it’s creating a unique destination for listeners online—a channel that makes KCRW’s site more than a spot where out-of-location listeners can hear the station’s broadcast. KCRW is not only acknowledging its growing online audience, but has created a stream that caters directly to them and invites even more listeners to tune in online.

What could classical stations do to offer similar services?

An article in the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s college newspaper gives more details about the sports broadcasts coming to KVNO in Omaha, which we wrote about earlier.

Long Island’s WLIU has been granted an additional two months to continue broadcasting from the campus of Stony Brook University, reports the Southampton News. Stony Brook, which holds the station’s license, intends to sell the station. WLIU is working on raising the money to buy its independence and continue broadcasting after breaking ties with the school. (CORRECTION (9/10/09): Stony Brook is home to WLIU’s studios but does not hold the station’s license. Long Island University does.)

And KUVO, a noncommercial, full-time jazz station in Denver, is looking for a new CEO. Current CEO Gene Craven is retiring.

About Mike Janssen

Mike Janssen Served as Scanning The Dial's original co-authors from Mar, 2008 to Jan, 2010 and is a freelance writer, editor and media educator based in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. He has written extensively about radio, mostly for Current, the trade newspaper about public broadcasting, where his articles have appeared since 1999. He has also worked in public radio as a reporter at WFDD-FM in Winston-Salem, N.C., where he began his career in journalism and filed pieces for NPR. Mike's work in radio expanded to include outreach and advocacy in 2007, when he worked with the Future of Music Coalition to recruit applicants for noncommercial radio stations. He has since embarked on writing a series of articles about radio hopefuls for FMC's blog.

Mike also writes regularly for Retail Traffic magazine and teaches workshops about writing, podcasting and radio journalism. In his spare time he enjoys vegetarian food, the outdoors, reading, movies and traveling. You can learn more about Mike and find links to more of his writing and reporting at mikejanssen.net.

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