Had an email from Daniel Gilliam today, P.D. of WUOL in Louisville. He reports that Louisville Public Media has achieved its highest listener numbers ever, with the three Louisville public stations up 38% over the spring book. LPM Vice President Todd Mundt credits his staff and the stations’ focus on community:
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News Roundup: Classical radio thriving in England, threatened in St. Louis; AMPPR audio, PRPD plans
Welcome to the Monday morning roundup on Scanning the Dial, where we’ve got news from bad to good and ghosts of conferences past and yet to come.
- KFUO-FM St. Louis closer to sale, format change
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported yesterday that the sale of KFUO-FM in St. Louis is closer to fruition, with contemporary Christian station Joy FM as the leading candidate. The station is currently owned by the Lutheran Church&#ndash;Missouri Synod, and the sale is before their board of directors in a meeting this week. We posted about the possible sale when the news first broke.
WLIU On The Auction Block
A quick note, and Happy Monday! WLIU on Long Island is up for sale or is available for some sort of creative partnership, according to Tom Taylor of Radio-Info. WLIU’s owner, Long Island University is going to stop supporting the NPR-affiliate in October for financial reasons. The station is mostly news and jazz, though it does play some classical, and one of the announcers is Bonnie Grice, who is well known to those of us in the classical world. We’ll keep you posted.
WUFT makes the switch, and other station happenings
WUFT in Gainesville, Fla., went through with its change to all-news Monday, despite the continued protests of area classical fans. The Gainesville Sun ran an article noting the change — I wonder whether this might be the most media coverage of a switch away from classical since we inaugurated this blog. WUFT now airs an all-classical HD channel, and the Sun notes that electronics stores in Gainesville have sold an unprecedented number of HD radios since the change. I was also surprised that the HD channel features live hosts. That may be a first for an HD classical channel, according to the article. (Are any of the hosts on WNYC2 live?)