KUSC in Los Angeles has made a lot of changes recently. They hired Gail Eichenthal as Program Director, and they are putting energy and vision into their fundraising and programming. I asked KUSC producer Brian Lauritzen to catch us up on what they’re doing. Here’s his report…
Links: Future of radio, Tennessee’s WUOT, CBC’s Radio
The first hour of The Diane Rehm Show yesterday focused on the future of radio. Thanks to the Public Radio Program Directors’ blog for the heads-up. There’s speculation afoot that WUOT-FM, a news/classical public radio station in Knoxville, Tenn., may drop its midday music (though I think the Metro Pulse’s substantiation of this is a little shaky). But the station’s program director does confirm that WUOT might replace some of its local classical programming with Classical 24, the most widely carried around-the-clock satellite feed. And a critic writing for the (Saskatoon) StarPhoenix … Continue Reading
The Albany Times-Union ran a feature the other day on a local classical music buff who has refined a system for tracking performances by orchestras around the world: