AM station in L.A. adds a slice of classical

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Listeners in Los Angeles will soon get a little more classical music to enjoy on the airwaves — though in less-than-stellar audio fidelity. A Los Angeles Times blogger reports that KGIL-AM, which used to be K-Mozart, will pick up weekly broadcasts of the New York Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony starting Feb. 15.

On top of that, the station will carry Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin, produced by WFMT in Chicago, on weeknights. Read the full post for more details.

It’s an unusual programming move for a station that’s devoted to conservative talk most of the time. But in these times, devotees of classical music have to take what they can get. And it’s cheering to see that the station is responding to what it called “popular demand.”

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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.

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2 thoughts on “AM station in L.A. adds a slice of classical”

  1. Glad Saul Levine is tossing a bone back to the Classical audience–though having to slog through nasty neo-con Tawkers like Michael Savage seems a high price to pay.

    When I started work in L.A. radio in 1989 there was a myriad of full-time stations featuring the format: KFAC, KCSN, KUSC, KVCR–even KCRW, KPCC and KPFK had sizable program blocks dedicated to it.

    As fine a job KUSC is doing, it’s good to see they don’t have a complete monopoly on classical radio in Market #2.

    -Robert Ready,
    Vermont

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