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Just What Sacramento Needs – More Talk, Less Music

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The Sacramento Business Journal reports that Classical Public Radio in Sacramento is moving its jazz off of the dual format station KXJZ (JZ, get it?).  Why, you ask?  Here’s why: The changes will allow Capital Public Radio to repeat news and information shows that air during the day in the evening, and free up airtime to provide additional news and information programs. Repeats of talk shows??? They are moving jazz over to the classical music station 88.9 KXPR, displacing some of the classical programming.  But that’s ok, says General Manager Rick Eytcheson, because classical listeners can listen … Continue Reading

Adding a Classical Station

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There’s an interesting editorial today in Radio-Info.com.  Tom Taylor summarizes an interesting uptick in public/classical stations:

New York, Philly, San Francisco, Dallas, Pittsburgh and now Nashville – public radio finds ways to build.

Two years ago it was New York Public Radio committing $11.5 million to create a standalone classical station. Then we’ve seen the University of Southern California extend up into the Bay Area with the purchase of two FMs to create a classical service, and then a new venture to buy Pittsburgh’s WDUQ (90.5) for $6 million (a group led by the former management offered $6.5 million), and now this week, New York Public Radio and Philly’s WHYY buying pieces of the nine-station NJN group.

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WEKU’s New Classical Service in Kentucky

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Thanks to Greg Kostraba of WBAA in West Lafayette, IN for the news on WEKU’s long-awaited classical re-launch.

From Kentucky.com:

Public radio station WEKU-88.9 FM has signed a three-year deal to launch its long-discussed classical music station in Central Kentucky. Beginning July 1, WKYL-102.1 FM in Lawrenceburg will be home to the genre that defined WEKU before the Richmond-based station’s switch last year to news and talk, which irked some longtime listeners.

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