I’m all for change. Change is good. Winston Churchill said, “There is nothing wrong with change, if it’s in the right direction.”
Everybody loves a good list, especially at the beginning of a new year. So, as we look to improve our stations this year, what comes to mind in terms of what you’d eliminate, or stop doing, and, what would you add to the mix? What needs to change?
A curous thing happened on the way to higher ratings…
Big news in the radio world: Bill Kling, the man who started American Public Media and who hired Garrison Keillor, is stepping down in June after 45 years at Minnesota Public Radio. Kling began a small regional station in Minnesota in 1967. From that he has created a media conglomerate that now employs 700 radio professionals broadcasting on 44 stations.
Looks like Houston will get a full-time Classical station fairly soon, not though without some consternation and birth pains. According to a University of Houston news release, the Board of Regents voted to buy Rice University’s student-run radio station, 50,000 watt KTRU for $9.5-million, If approved by the Feds it would end the station’s student-driven programming and create an all new 24-hour classical-music station, the call letters of which would be KUHC. The students at Rice aren’t laying down quietly, mounting what always feels like a futile SOS (save our station) campaign … Continue Reading