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Classical Expands In South Florida

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Classical South Florida, owned and operated by American Public Media is acquiring WAYJ 88.7 FM in Fort Myers, Florida. “We’re tremendously excited to have the opportunity to bring classical music back to the Southwest Florida airwaves,” said CSF president and general manager Douglas C. Evans. “Classical South Florida was launched in Southeast Florida in the fall of 2007, and its programming can now be heard from the upper Keys to the Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast. Soon our programming will reach Southwest Florida as well, from Fort Myers to Naples and Marco … Continue Reading

Classical in Des Moines Now 24/7

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Great news in Iowa from DesMoinesRegister.com: Iowa Public Radio is now the owner of two new frequencies near Des Moines — 96.3 in Pleasantville and 105.9 in Patterson — that will allow them to increase their classical service. The result: Listeners in greater Des Moines can now tune in to classical music 24/7. The two new channels don’t break for news on “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered,” unlike IPR’s mostly classical 90.1 FM, which serves central Iowa from a transmission hub in Ames. But 90.1 FM may follow suit. The patching up of … 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

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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