Programming

Catching Up

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Hello to all.  I’ve been away for a while.  Many of you know that I lost my husband of 40 years suddenly and unexpectedly at the end of July.  Thank you for your notes and condolences. In Boston, longtime classical broadcaster David MacNeill has passed away at age 80.  MacNeill worked at classical WCRB for 57 years, including many years as the voice of the Boston Pops from Boston and from Tanglewood.  There’s more from the Framingham MA paper here, and an obituary here. ____________ A cautionary tale about maintaining your records: … 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

WWNO Moves to HD

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Another sad day in radio as WWNO in New Orleans moves off the FM main channel and onto HD today.  We reported on this earlier but had the date wrong.  A note to the listserve from the last man standing, Farrar Hudkins: …today is the last day of daytime classical music on WWNO in New Orleans. Beginning Monday, daytime classical programming will move to WWNO2, our second HD channel, where, as of right now, I am the only announcer. Also, my show, although expanded to six hour from the current five, will … Continue Reading

Peter Whorf Leaves WFMT for WKAR

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Tom Taylor at Radio-info.com reports that Peter Whorf is leaving his longtime position as Program Director and VP of Content at WFMT in Chicago and will be taking over as General Manager of WKAR at Michigan State University. Peter Whorf departs Chicago for East Lansing, says TimeOut Chicago’s Robert Feder. The program director and VP of Content and Project Management at classical WFMT (98.7) takes over August 27 as station manager of Michigan State University-owned non-coms WKAR (news/talk at 870) and WKAR-FM (news and classical at 90.5). Peter worked at Chicago Public Media’s … Continue Reading

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