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.

NPR Music on Your iPad

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NPR Music has a new app for iPads that delivers a whole boatload of content very slickly.  I don’t have an iPad, so I’m just repeating the report by Christopher Breen at Macworld. The app contains a lot of archived material — audio, video, and text — and it also has radio.  NPR has underserved classical listeners for years now, but the new app brings oodles of classical radio back under the NPR wing, even if it’s not their own content. … the right side of the screen displays at least one featured station along with a list of … Continue Reading

Classical Music as Punishment

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We’ve seen this story again and again.  City officials or store owners want to keep teens from hanging out so they play classical music to chase them off.   If the kids had music education in school they’d probably like the music and it wouldn’t deter them.  This latest idiotic example is in the western Washington town of Sequim (pronounced SQUIM), where city officials want to clear young people out of the city transit center. Three points jumped out at me from the article on Peninsula Daily News.com.  One is that the kids have been hanging … Continue Reading

Radio Pays For the Doc Fix – Updated

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Not sure what this means yet.  Anyone have a clue? Financing: To pay for the non-payroll provisions, lawmakers agreed to sell radio spectrum licenses, as well as forcing new federal workers to pay more into their government pensions. Dems gave up on the millionaire/billionaire surtax fairly early in the process. The clip is from Steve Benen at The Maddow Blog, explaining how Congress is planning to pay for extending unemployment benefits and the Doc Fix.   UPDATE:  Ok, I get it now.  This is not just radio spectrum.  It’s spectrum held by the TV broadcasters but no … Continue Reading

Classical Stations Rock, So to Speak

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Tom Taylor of Radio-Info.com reports from the Arbitron Conference in Baltimore that Classical public radio stations lead the pack in TSL (time spent listening).  He is quoting Research Director Inc.: #1, The average non-commercial classical station has an age 6+ total week time spent listening of three hours and 19 minutes. That’s “higher than 15 of the 18 commercial format groups we analyzed.” The report is called How is my station really doing? Public Radio Edition  and you can find it here.  The report says we listen longer because we’re smarter and more loyal.  Well, it doesn’t … Continue Reading

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