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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2 thoughts on “AM station in L.A. adds a slice of classical”
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.
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
Robert — I agree re the conservative talk — I wonder how much overlap there would be between the audiences for the talk and the classical, if any.