Ok, well, maybe extraterrestrial isn’t the term you’d use, but this post is about classical music radio outside of the terrestrial stations — two sources in particular: 1) the new, combined Sirius XM classical channel which they call Symphony Hall, currently on channel 80 on Sirius and 78 on XM, and 2) Naxos Web Radio, which has 80 (!!!!!!!!!) classical channels, divided by genre. Both are subscription services.
New media
Making personal connections with Web tools
At ArtsJournal, Greg Sandow has been writing about social networking and classical music, which I hit on recently when I wrote about why and how classical stations should use Twitter.
How classical stations could use Twitter
Are you Twittering? If not, and you’re at a classical station, maybe it’s worth giving some thought.
Wednesday link grab bag
Some odds and ends we didn’t get to last week amid Marty’s posts from the Public Radio Program Directors conference:
:: Minnesota Public Radio has rolled out an iPhone app for listening to its various streams of programming.