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Losing a Classical Station in Kansas City

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KXTR, known as Radio Bach at 1660 AM in Kansas City is switching formats to an all talk business channel by next week.  The switch does not completely eliminate classical music on the radio in KC, because KPR plays 6-8 hours of classical a day on their dual format station.  But it does eliminate the majority of classical listening hours.  KXTR has enjoyed a large audience, at times registering a 4-share despite being on an AM frequency and not being very good at raising money. Bottom Line Communications reports that KXTR is donating its music library to KPR. … Continue Reading

Classical Radio is Rosy in Connecticut

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An absolutely wonderful post by Milton Moore about music in eastern Connecticut includes this tidbit: We even have more classical music on the radio now. In addition to the music programming on WNPR in Hartford, WSHU in Fairfield has spread its signal eastward, WMNR in Monroe has beefed up its broadcast area, and a commercial classical station, WCRI, popped up in Westerly. You can now channel-surf as you drive, something unheard of not long ago. It’s starting to feel like the best of times here. You can read the post on theday.com.  Mr. Moore expresses beautifully … Continue Reading

Expanding Classical in NH

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Ben Leubsdorf of the Concord Monitor reports that Classical WCNH 91.5 in Concord NH has moved into the same building as New Hampshire Public Radio.  The station began transmitting as a low power in 2004, and has been at 190 watts, but is increasing its signal to 50,000 watts via WEVO 89.1 FM’s HD2 channel.  They’re also online and they have an iPhone app. General Manager Harry Kozlowski says this is the first step toward a bigger goal. When we formed Highland in 2000, that was our mission: not only to bring back classical music in Concord, … Continue Reading

NPR Music on Your iPad

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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

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