All Entries Tagged With: "St. Louis"
Pledge income down at WUFT, and a closer look at the KFUO sale
Two updates today on recent station-centric kerfuffles that we’ve been following. The first pertains to WUFT-FM in Gainesville, Fla., which as you might remember decided to drop classical from its primary signal and move all the music to an HD channel.
Well, the station had its first fund drive since the switch, and donations were down [...]
Chance of more classical in St. Louis
Hi there — apologies for the extended absence, but I’ve been whupped with deadline after deadline as of late. It’s nice to come up for air. As Douglas Adams said, “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
So it looks as if classical fans in St. Louis despondent over [...]
St. Louis to lose its classical station, KFUO
It’s official: St. Louis’s KFUO-FM, that city’s commercial all-classical station, will be sold to a Christian broadcaster, pending FCC approval. The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has agreed to sell the station to Gateway Creative Broadcasting for $18 million and interest.
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