There’s an old saying in and around community radio stations: “We do meetings.” That’s definitely the situation over at KUSP-FM in Santa Cruz, California, which has been holding a variety of public, Community Advisory Board, official Board, and who knows whatever other kind of gatherings over its uncertain future. Station management, declaring the signal over […]
The Santa Cruz Sentinel reports that public radio station KUSP has taken a major step towards selling its license. On Monday KUSP’s board, staff, and volunteers approved a letter of intent to offer it to the Classical Public Radio Network for $1 million. CPRN owns classical radio station KDFC in San Francisco and is headquartered […]
I am trying to wrap my brain around the latest American Public Media venture: YourClassical.org. The press release we received for this “Classical Lifestyle” online radio service boasts the following channels: Relax: Classical music to help you keep calm and carry on. Perfect for yoga, meditation or a frustrating commute. Energy: Lively classical masterworks that […]
Happy 2015! As we start the year, it’s a good time to reflect on the biggest radio stories of 2014 and also to make our predictions for 2015. Over the past few weeks we’ve shared our thoughts on the state of college radio, low power FM (LPFM), radio in academia, and podcasting in 2014, as […]
Classical public radio station WQXR in New York City has released its annual New Year’s top 100 composition list—the results of a listener poll of favorite pieces. The results bear an uncanny resemblance to, well, last year’s WQXR top 100 list. Here are the top dozen of this year and 2013: 2013 2014 1 Beethoven Symphony […]
New Years is approaching, which means that it is time for classical radio stations to run top 100 composer polls for their listeners, then play the results in an on-air marathon. Last year New York classical station WQXR-FM queried the faithful and got a fairly predictable list of warhorses. The number one pick was Beethoven’s Ninth […]
WQXR-FM’s Meet the Composer podcast is now around half a year old, and it has already become a wonderful resource. I just finished listening to the latest episode, focusing on the Brazilian composer Marcos Balter. “As a composer, [Balter] writes an almost unthinkable amount of music, and not all of it works,” observes MTC host and […]
As the St. Louis Symphony revved up to perform the Brahms Requiem on Saturday night, live on St. Louis Public Radio, symphony Vice President and program co-host Adam Crane probably thought he had an uncomplicated evening ahead of him. Instead he wound up narrating a requiem for the martyr of Ferguson, Missouri: Mike Brown. A […]
I’m enjoying the very Hollow Earth Radioesque interview that Garrett Kelly, co-founder of Hollow Earth Radio in Seattle gave to The Stranger, Seattle’s arts/culture scene newspaper. Hollow Earth just got a Low Power FM construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission. “We’ll be on the air in no time, though we can’t give you the […]
Here’s some encouraging news for classical music radio lovers. The Telegraph has an interview with renowned Welsh harpist Catrin Finch, who says she’s seeing lots of children turning their parents on to classical music. “Quite often it is the kids will come home and introduce classical music to their parents,” Finch noted. “It is something […]
