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Cape Cod Station in Bankruptcy

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Classical WFCC on Cape Cod is part of a cluster of stations whose parent company, Sandab,  filed for Chapter 11 protection on Wednesday.   We’ll keep you posted. Mike has an inspiring post for Monday called Keeping Classical Radio Vital for the Future, by  Jack Allen, P.D. in Portland OR.  It’s another example of what I consider “serial encouragement” that should help counterbalance all the discouraging news. Have a great weekend.

Boston’s WCRB Sold to WGBH

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Wow!  Just wow. From Radio Info.com: Price: $14 million. Seller Nassau Broadcasting is doing a debt-for-equity swap with lender Goldman Sachs, and the biggest single station in its portfolio is commercial-classical WCRB (99.5), licensed to Lowell, MA. Now Goldman steers it to public radio/TV broadcaster WGBH, which already operates news/classical WGBH-FM (89.7) and WGBH-TV. It’s not yet clear whether WGBH will run it as a non-commercial station, or continue its operation as a commercial station through a subsidiary. Brokers: Patrick Communications for seller Nassau, and Public Radio Capital for buyer WGBH. More … Continue Reading

KUSC Climbing the Charts

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If you read this blog regularly you know I’m a fan of KUSC in L.A., because they don’t shy away from fresh programming and documenting what’s going on in the real classical music world, instead of pretending that the only thing people want to listen to is music they already know. 

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Americans for the Arts National Convention & Three New Studies

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Thursday through Saturday is the national convention of the advocacy organization Americans for the Arts. It’s being held in Seattle, and I will be interviewing attendees and presenters for the group’s website.  I also plan to report here on who’s saying what and how it might impact us in classical music radio.

There are also three new reports out that you might want to read.  One is from Chorus America that finds:

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