Commercial radio

Boston’s Classical Shapeshifting – Updated

December 17, 2009 by Marty Ronish

Update 12/18: A new article in the Boston Globe here…

Before I talk about Boston, I want to thank those of you who made suggestions about better Xmas programming. Even without actually hearing the music you suggested, I can hear it in my head and it makes me smile. The wonderful trio from Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ — wow, gorgeous. If you haven’t played it on your station yet this year, please do. And so many other great suggestions. Sounds like a lot of you are enriching your listeners.

Boston is going through growing pains with the new classical switchover from WCRB to WGBH.

You Are Old, Father William, the Walrus Said

November 18, 2009 by Marty Ronish

With apologies to Lewis Carroll for conflating his poems, and thanks to alert reader Dorron Katzin, I’d like to call your attention to a new study by Walrus Research, demonstrating that those of us who like classical music on the radio are aging. In fact, those who don’t like classical music on the radio are aging, too. It reminds me of the announcers who say, “it’s 10 am here on KING-FM.”

St. Louis to lose its classical station, KFUO

October 7, 2009 by Mike Janssen

It’s official: St. Louis’s KFUO-FM, that city’s commercial all-classical station, will be sold to a Christian broadcaster, pending FCC approval. The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has agreed to sell the station to Gateway Creative Broadcasting for $18 million and interest.

Seattle: KING-FM Redux

October 2, 2009 by Marty Ronish

If you’re following the story on Seattle’s legacy station KING-FM, there’s a well-researched article by Feliks Banel in Seattle’s highly respected Seattle newsblog Crosscut. You can access the article here.

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