Mike Janssen

Mike Janssen Served as Scanning The Dial's original co-authors from Mar, 2008 to Jan, 2010 and is a freelance writer, editor and media educator based in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. He has written extensively about radio, mostly for Current, the trade newspaper about public broadcasting, where his articles have appeared since 1999. He has also worked in public radio as a reporter at WFDD-FM in Winston-Salem, N.C., where he began his career in journalism and filed pieces for NPR. Mike's work in radio expanded to include outreach and advocacy in 2007, when he worked with the Future of Music Coalition to recruit applicants for noncommercial radio stations. He has since embarked on writing a series of articles about radio hopefuls for FMC's blog. Mike also writes regularly for Retail Traffic magazine and teaches workshops about writing, podcasting and radio journalism. In his spare time he enjoys vegetarian food, the outdoors, reading, movies and traveling. You can learn more about Mike and find links to more of his writing and reporting at mikejanssen.net.

Tennessee jazz station could go dark

February 18, 2009 by Mike Janssen

Granted, this post is about a jazz station, not a classical station. But when it comes to giving thoughtful music with modest commercial appeal a safe haven on the airwaves, we’re all in this together, right?

Middle State Tennessee University in Nashville could be looking to shut down and even unload WMOT-FM, an around-the-clock jazz station that claims a 40-year history. Local NBC affiliate WSMV reports that MTSU is trying to cut as much as $19 million from its budget. With that sort of burden, you might understand how a station ends up in this precarious situation.

Jobs at WGTE and All Classical FM

February 16, 2009 by Mike Janssen

I was looking over the job listings in Current the other day and a few caught my eye as Scanning the Dial-worthy. Here’s one from All Classical FM in Portland, Ore.:

Music director among casualties at WMFE

February 11, 2009 by Mike Janssen

A few miscellaneous notes this morning. First off, a blogger for OrlandoSentinel.com reports that Dave Glerum, a classical host at WMFE in Orlando, Fla., was among the employees laid off last week when the station cut a quarter of its staff.

“Glerum was the station’s music director — which makes me wonder how a classical-music radio station can go on without someone programming its classical music,” writes the blogger. Good question. Classical 24, perhaps?

A slightly new format at Scanning the Dial

February 9, 2009 by Mike Janssen

Faithful readers, do not adjust your monitors — if Scanning the Dial looks a little different to you, there’s good reason. We’ve followed the example of our fellow Inside the Arts blogger at Butts in the Seats and moved to a slightly different format, without the Featured Post box that previously appeared near the top of our front page. Also, the list of Latest Articles has been removed — you’ll now find our latest posts in sequence running down the page. We opted for the change to give recent posts a little … Continue Reading

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