Hello to all. I’ve been away for a while. Many of you know that I lost my husband of 40 years suddenly and unexpectedly at the end of July. Thank you for your notes and condolences. In Boston, longtime classical broadcaster David MacNeill has passed away at age 80. MacNeill worked at classical WCRB for [...]
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Good News in SF: KDFC Expands
The University of Southern California is adding to its collection of stations in the Bay Area with the purchase of KCNL 104.5 in San Jose. The goal is to increase the coverage of classical KDFC into the South Bay area. If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll recall that KDFC switched from commercial to public early in 2011. [...]
San Francisco Classical Still in Flux
From Tom Taylor at Radio-Info.com: the classical listening community and the displaced adult alternative community are both unhappy in San Francisco. First of all KUSF listeners are still bummed about the way Entercom and USF dumped their adult alternative programming with no warning and moved KDFC to the KUSF frequency at 90.3. It’s sort of convoluted. [...]
Programming – Our Ongoing Controversy in Public Radio
Responding finally to Mike’s query last week about how programmers choose their music, I think a good place to start is to look at how the successful stations program. Of course I have my own opinions but I’ll save them until the end of this post. If you look at the big commercial stations, WQXR [...]