KHFM Assessed And Some Tidbits of Good Cheer

Music critic D. S. Crafts wrote in his year-end review in the Albuquerque Journal:

The biggest news this year on the classical music scene was not in the concert halls, but on the airwaves. After Bob Bishop was laid off from KHFM, many of the on-air personalities resigned in protest, most notably Kip Allen. The station continues to operate, but the essential character that made the station so successful is gone. It is a shame that mere legal ownership (by out-of-state American General Media) allows such insensitive changes to the nature of beauty and companionship, which were at the core of this once-beloved cultural institution.

Continue Reading

Update on KHFM

My email is humming with messages from Albuquerque about KHFM.  I listened online for a couple of hours today, and though two hours in a week are not necessarily representative of a 24/7 station, I did hear some things worth commenting on.

Continue Reading