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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

Tom Taylor Now Newsletter

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If you’re a regular reader of Scanning the Dial you’ve benefited for years from the excellent work of Tom Taylor in keeping us up-to-date on radio news.  Last fall, I lost him.  I always used to cite his Radio-info.com column but just like a station changing format, overnight it changed to a newsletter that doesn’t help us in the classical realm. Well, Tom got in touch yesterday and he has a new newsletter called “Tom Taylor Now,” and it’s the outstanding work we’ve always relied on.  He’ll keep you informed about the FCC, how radio is … Continue Reading

New St. Louis Station Goes Live Next Week!

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According to Samantha Liss of the St. Louis Business Journal, RAF-STL begins broadcasting April 8th at 107.3 FM, and at 96.3 HD2. RAF stands for Radio Arts Foundation, a small non-profit that has been determined and dedicated to bringing back classical music to the airwaves in St. Louis.  The former classical music station, KFUO switched formats in 2010. Thanks to a $1 million start-up grant from the Centene Charitable Foundation, RAF-STL was able to start the radio station, which is located in Clayton. “Listeners in the St. Louis community will now have … Continue Reading

Happy Birthday to WCLV, WNMU, and WSCL

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I think there are some 700 U.S. stations that play classical music.  Am I opening a can of worms by sending a birthday card to three of them? Nov. 1, 2012 is the actual birthday of WCLV in Cleveland, long known as one of our legacy stations and as the distributor of many wonderful shows over the years, including Adventures in Good Music with Karl Haas that many of us grew up on.  Robert Conrad manages the station. 2012 is also the birthday of WNMU in Marquette, Michigan, where our colleague Stan Wright … Continue Reading

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