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.

Steve Brown New PD in Roanoke

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WVTF in Roanoke has named Steve Brown its new Program Director.  He does the octopus act  — a little bit of everything — like all local station peeps do. Since October 2011, Brown has hosted the weekday “Morning” and “Afternoon Classics” from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., “a lengthy announcing schedule by any broadcasting standards,” said WVTF Program Director Rick Mattioni. In his role, Brown now programs all the classical music for the weekdays and Saturday afternoons. In addition, Brown updates the playlists that appear on the WVTF website and maintains the music library. … Continue Reading

Good Idea at MPR

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A friend asked me earlier this week if I’ve heard anything creative lately on classical radio, and I had to answer “not really.”  In my experience, classical stations are risk averse and I don’t just mean averse to playing new music or vocal music.  Not to disparage anyone, but except for KUSC and WQXR, I rarely hear about stations trying new ideas or being bold about stretching their audiences. I just ran across one today that I didn’t know about.  Minnesota Public Radio sponsors what they call an “artist-in-residence,” but instead of being “in-residence” on the … Continue Reading

Radio My Way – Ron Della Chiesa

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Veteran Boston broadcaster Ron Della Chiesa has a new memoir out called Radio My Way: Featuring Celebrity Profiles from Jazz, Opera, the American Songbook and More.  You can read a profile of Ron on the WBUR blog here.  The book has a foreword by Brian Bell, Ron’s partner-in-crime at Tanglewood and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.  You can read about the two of them and sound engineer Jim Donahue in this article about Tanglewood’s 20th anniversary. For the last two decades, Boston radio personality Ron Della Chiesa has been the “voice of Tanglewood,” hosting Friday and … Continue Reading

Huge News for Radio

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The FCC has just made a major and overdue decision about Low-Power FMs that could affect the classical radio landscape.  The commission has cleared — basically denied —  hundreds of applications for repeaters that have been waiting for approval and instead has opened up the airwaves to hundreds of potential new community stations to broadcast on low-power signals in urban areas. The applications for repeaters were filed by corporate and religious broadcasters who wanted to spread their biased content even further. …what a lot of right-wing, conservative radio stations have been able to do is expand their reach … Continue Reading

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