NPR Music on Your iPad

NPR Music has a new app for iPads that delivers a whole boatload of content very slickly.  I don’t have an iPad, so I’m just repeating the report by Christopher Breen at Macworld. The app contains a lot of archived material — audio, video, and text — and it also has radio.  NPR has underserved classical listeners for years now, but the new app brings oodles of classical radio back under the NPR wing, even if it’s not their own content. … the right side of the screen displays at least one featured station along with a list of … Continue Reading

WETA

A nice little tidbit this morning from Tom Taylor at radio-info.com: Big month for public radio news/talk WAMU, 4.6-4.0-5.1, now fourth. While classical non-com WETA (5.0-4.7-5.0) is fifth, giving the D.C. market two non-commercial stations in the top five. Ironic, isn’t it, given that the House just voted to eliminate federal funding for public broadcasting?

Bill Kling Stepping Down

Big news in the radio world: Bill Kling, the man who started American Public Media and who hired Garrison Keillor, is stepping down  in June after 45 years at Minnesota Public Radio.   Kling began a small regional station in Minnesota in 1967.  From that he has created a media conglomerate that now employs 700 radio professionals broadcasting on 44 stations.

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Catching Up On the News

Classical radio is not quite ready to bite the dust just yet! Two brand new 24-hour classical services in three markets are gearing up to go live this fall:

In Columbus, Ohio a new 24 hour classical station is about to start up.  Ohio State University’s WOSU is acquiring an adult alternative rock station and relaunching the frequency in the fall as Classical 101.  WOSU at 89.7, now dual format, will become an all news station carrying mostly NPR programs.  You can read about it here, on the WOSU website.

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