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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

News from WCLV

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I’m moving this from the comments to a post.  Thanks to Robert Conrad of WCLV:

WCLV TO MOVE FACILITIES TO THE IDEA CENTER ON PLAYHOUSE SQUARE IN DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND

It was announced on Tuesday, August 10, 2010, that WCLV 104.9, northeast Ohio’s classical music station, will be moving its studios and offices from the current Radio Ranch location in Warrensville Heights to the Idea Center on Playhouse Square in downtown Cleveland, the home of ideastream, Cleveland’s public broadcasters WVIZ/PBS and 90.3 WCPN FM.

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More from AMPPR

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I asked some of the attendees at the AMPPR conference in NYC to write reports for this blog.  Here is the first of two installments:

From John Pitman, Music Director at All Classical in Portland OR:

While visiting the facilities of WQXR/WNYC, I felt like I was walking the halls of some vast intergalactic public radio space station:  multiple floors, corridors, elevators, seemingly uncountable staff… it was most impressive.

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Uh-oh. Pay-for-Play in Seattle

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It was too good to be true.  One of the local TV stations in Seattle, KING 5 started a local arts show.  But it turns out, this is not really a news/feature program, but rather an infomercial paid for by the 5th Avenue Theater to promote its own shows.  When the theater doesn’t need the airtime, it “rents” the airtime out to other arts groups.  And of course, it’s expensive so the only groups that can afford it are the largest ones.  The disclaimer about this being paid advertising is virtually hidden, and the content is treated like feature reporting.

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