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Commentator decries WGCU decision

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A music teacher in Naples, Fla., sounds off in the Naples Daily News about WGCU’s decision to drop classical music from its analog FM signal: Telling people that they will need to buy a special converter to receive classical music that is being outsourced from Minnesota is not a solution. That approach only helps to promote the idea that classical music is an elitist form of entertainment. I think that Tardiff and the management of WGCU have succumbed to the lowest common denominator, money, which always wins out in the end. But … Continue Reading

Baltimore station seeks a leader

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WBJC-FM, the all-classical public radio station in Baltimore, is looking for a new general manager. “[T]he General Man[a]ger is responsible for providing leadership, vision, planning and direction to Maryland’s oldest and largest public radio station, with approximately 200,000 listeners in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan markets,” says the station’s website. WBJC is licensed to the Baltimore City Community College. We weren’t aware that the station’s previous g.m. had left, but we’ll see if we can find out where he’s gone, what he’s up to and if he’d like to chat it with us a … Continue Reading

Update On KHFM

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If you haven’t seen the original post about KHFM in Albuquerque, scroll down to Aug. 10th. In the meantime, I’ve talked to various stakeholders, gruntled and disgruntled, and need to make a couple of corrections. First, it was American General Media’s local manager, Tim Gannon who did the actual firing, though the order apparently came down from the owners. More about them in a minute. Second, the reason winter ratings are down so drastically is that the transmitter was hit by lightning, and the station was off the air for six weeks between Feb. and May.

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Could the CBC orchestra stay in business?

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Anyone following the fate of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.’s Radio Orchestra ought to read a thorough article in the Toronto Globe and Mail about the unresolved fate of the orchestra and other CBC Radio projects that may be on their way out. The CBC inspired widespread criticism and public protests in March when it announced that it would shut down the radio orchestra, the last of its kind still operating in North America.

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