Programming

National Search for KHFM PD

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From the New Mexico Broadcasters Association: Job Description: AGM-Nevada LLC is currently searching for an experienced Program Director for its KHFM – Classical Format Station. Job duties include: Determine type, length, and time of programs, songs and/or features and does so in keeping with station format; Evaluate programming available from distributors, syndicators, and independent producers to recommend acquisitions for broadcast. Develops and maintains relationships with recording companies and distributors. Establishes work schedules for on-air staff and schedules remote broadcasts in conjunction with client requests and staff availability. Auditions and hires talent in conjunction … Continue Reading

San Francisco Classical Still in Flux

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From Tom Taylor at Radio-Info.com: the classical listening community and the displaced adult alternative community are both unhappy in San Francisco. First of all KUSF listeners are still bummed about the way Entercom and USF dumped their adult alternative programming with no warning and moved KDFC to the KUSF frequency at 90.3.  It’s sort of convoluted. …the new Classical Public Radio Network, associated with L.A.’s KUSC (91.5), would take over the classical franchise from Entercom and run it on 90.3, as well as an FM up in Santa Rosa (Angwin-licensed 89.9). But it’s … Continue Reading

The BBC Takes the Lead

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It’s not so common anymore to see a classical radio station lead a major arts festival, but the BBC is doing just that.  You can read the full story here. Leading up to the the London 2012 Festival and the Cultural Olympiad, the “Beeb” has more than 100 live performances taking place across the UK on the weekend of March 3-4. Built around classical and orchestral music, but also featuring jazz, folk and world music, Music Nation will see thousands of musicians and audiences experience world-class performances, community projects and workshops in venues and public … Continue Reading

Is News/Talk the “Tyranny of the Majority?”

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There’s an interesting post on BuffaloNews.com today by Jeff Simon.  I think his hyperbole is tongue-in-cheek, but he has some intriguing thoughts.  Simon bemoans the whittling away of jazz and blues on Buffalo’s stations: …no one ever understood the inherent flaw in American democracy better than Alexis de Tocqueville, whose 1835 “Democracy in America” tells you most of what you need to know about why excellence always has been a media battleground and always will be. What de Tocqueville summarized in one phrase characterizes the current perils of WBFO-FM in an age of WNED … Continue Reading

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