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.

Adding Classical in Nashville

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Radio-info.com reports that Nashville pubcaster WMOT, Murfreesboro (89.5) is adding classical in middays, for listeners who miss the Bach and Beethoven that crosstown WPLN (90.3) has relegated to the nighttime hours. The Tennessean also reports that WMOT is adding more talk and Americana programming, and lessening the amount of time devoted to jazz (to 7pm-5am). It’s also adding NPR’s “All Things Considered” in PM drive. The Nashville Board of Radio-Info.com talks about the programming moves at WMOT, owned by Middle Tennessee State University.

YIKES. KDFC. New News.

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From Radio_info.com: Entercom’s new “Fox” bumps classical KDFC To start the story: Entercom offloads San Francisco’s classical KDFC and will simulcast classic rock “K-Fox” on 102.1. Last week Entercom announced it’s paying $9 million for San Jose’s “K-Fox” KUFX (98.5). Today it says it’s dropping the longtime classical format on its own KDFC, San Francisco at 102.1 and simulcasting K-Fox there beginning January 24. The new home of classical? A freshly-formed simulcast of two non-coms – the current adult alternative KUSF (90.3) and Santa Rosa-market Christian “Candle” KNDL, Angwin (89.9). A new … Continue Reading

Chronicling Joy

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I’ve been away from the blog for a few months working on two big projects.  One of them launches Jan. 1st, and I thought in this season of joy you might like to hear about it.  It has been an amazing revelation.   The project is a new radio series called America’s Music Festivals.  We’re broadcasting from 26 different festivals and we heard dozens of comments like these from each one:

“I’ve never laughed so much in my life” (Benny Kim, Music from Angel Fire)

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Full-time Classical in Columbus

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Hi all.  I’m still in production exile for another week, but here’s a tidbit from Radio-info.com: In Columbus, classical music starts on 101.1, as a $5.7 million deal closes. This is Roger Vaughan selling the Grove City-licensed Class A signal to Ohio State University, which converts it to the full-time classical station it’s always wanted. That lets WOSU become a pure public radio news/talk station  Pretty cool, that a classical station is still going for $5.7 million.  Guess we’re not dead yet, eh? 

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