New media

Catching Up on Some News Bits

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KCME in Colorado Springs welcomes George Preston as its new General Manager.  If you’ve been in the radio biz for a while, you know George as a presence on WFMT in Chicago and producer/host of the Chicago Lyric Opera broadcasts.  Before that he was Music Director and overnight host at WNYC in New York.  He is replacing Jeanna Wearing, who ran the station for 18 years and is staying on to help with development. In Kansas City, defunct classical station KXTR is coming back as an internet station.  Radio Bach is streaming classical … Continue Reading

Exploring Music to Make Archive Available — For $$

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It’s a pretty incredible archive — more than 500 hours of Music Education as taught by the inimitable Bill McLaughlin.  The site goes live on Monday May 6.  If you want to check it out  before it goes behind a paywall, here’s the press release: WFMT Radio Network to Launch ‘Exploring Music’ Website May 6 Subscribers Can Search and Stream More Than 500 Hours of Syndicated Classical Music and Commentary Hosted By Bill McGlaughlin Broadcast Archive Configured for Online Music Education at ExploringMusic.org ‘Music appreciation, $2 a week’ Editors: Complimentary press previews of ExploringMusic.org, with full access … Continue Reading

Performance Royalties – The First Domino Tumbles

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Until recently, musicians and record companies have had a mutually-beneficial agreement with radio stations.   No money needed to change hands because the artists and record companies got free publicity and the radio stations got free product. With music moving to the internet and the change in media ownership rules, however, that delicate balance has shifted.  Record companies have lost out to file-sharing.  Big money now owns most of the broadcast spectrum. Radio has never paid royalties to the artists, which made sense when radio was little mom and pop companies.  But you can see why it’s … Continue Reading

World’s Biggest Online Classical Destination?

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Radio Today  reports that Classic FM in the UK has launched a new website with the claim that it will become the “world’s biggest online classical music destination.” I went to the site here, and got a screen saying they only have rights to air in the UK. This is not the first time I’ve heard that an online station was going to dominate the world.  When NPR dropped most of its own original classical music programming and gathered a coalition of stations to contribute content to NPRmusic.org, they said it was going … Continue Reading

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