Marty Ronish

Marty Ronish is an independent producer of classical music radio programs. She currently produces the Chicago Symphony Orchestra broadcasts that air 52 weeks a year on more than 400 stations and online at www.cso.org. She also produces a radio series called "America's Music Festivals," which presents live music from some of the country's most dynamic festivals. She is a former Fulbright scholar and co-author of a catalogue of Handel's autograph manuscripts.

Eastern Shore Gains More Classical

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Our friends in Hampton Roads VA continue to be leaders in classical radio.  Instead of constricting, they are expanding — this time to the Eastern Shore, on the southern end of the Delmarva Peninsula: National Public Radio and classical music fans on the Eastern Shore of Virginia can tune in radio programs from Hampton Roads after WHRO officials this week flipped the switch that activated two new stations. Most listeners on the Shore can tune to 90.1 for NPR and 98.3 for all classical radio. WHRO invested over $1 million in three … Continue Reading

Southern Maine Losing its Classical Station

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The PressHerald.com is reporting that WBQW — known as WBACH — in Portland is going off the air next week. The station — WBQW, heard in the Portland area on 104.7 FM — was sold in a bankruptcy auction earlier this year to a company identified as Mainestream Media. The new owner will take over that station at 5 p.m. on Sept. 13, which will end the playing of classical music on the station. The new owner has not made its plan for the station public. WBACH’s classical music will continue to be … Continue Reading

Catching Up

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Hello to all.  I’ve been away for a while.  Many of you know that I lost my husband of 40 years suddenly and unexpectedly at the end of July.  Thank you for your notes and condolences. In Boston, longtime classical broadcaster David MacNeill has passed away at age 80.  MacNeill worked at classical WCRB for 57 years, including many years as the voice of the Boston Pops from Boston and from Tanglewood.  There’s more from the Framingham MA paper here, and an obituary here. ____________ A cautionary tale about maintaining your records: … Continue Reading

Happy Birthday to WCLV, WNMU, and WSCL

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I think there are some 700 U.S. stations that play classical music.  Am I opening a can of worms by sending a birthday card to three of them? Nov. 1, 2012 is the actual birthday of WCLV in Cleveland, long known as one of our legacy stations and as the distributor of many wonderful shows over the years, including Adventures in Good Music with Karl Haas that many of us grew up on.  Robert Conrad manages the station. 2012 is also the birthday of WNMU in Marquette, Michigan, where our colleague Stan Wright … Continue Reading

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