Actor and classical radio host dies at 90

Fred Crane, the last living male actor with a credit in the classic Gone with the Wind, died last week at the age of 90. Though his fame stemmed mainly from his appearance in the famous film, this obituary in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution notes that “his main career was hosting a classical music radio show in Los Angeles for 40 years.” He retired from radio more than two decades ago. The Wikipedia entry about Crane says the station was KFAC-AM/FM, which dumped the classical format in 1989.

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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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