Dixie State College in Southern Utah is a school with about 9,500 students and until now, the only classical music radio station in southern Utah.
Ashley Putnam reports for the Dixie Sun that KXDS is converting from classical to Top 40 and eventually news and talk because it wants to be more relevant to students.
“We have been looking at areas and how to improve student involvement,” said Bill Christensen, dean of the business and communication departments. “We want to give opportunities for students to get the skills to be successful.”
Although the station is changing, classical music fans will still be able to locate their favorites by tuning in online to southernutahnow.com/radio or dixie.edu/radio.
This change will be occurring over several months, and Denevan said he hopes by the end of the semester, the radio will sound perfect.
Amazing that the “radio will sound perfect” just as soon as they dump classical.
And I love the fantasy that listeners will tune in to hear an online classical stream put out by a station that doesn’t value the format. Do you think Dixie State will put energy and quality production into the online stream? Are they really going to pay substantial royalties to stream classical music?
There’s plenty of great classical listening online already.
p.s. Attention music lovers: this is not the Ashley Putnam who is a famous opera singer and teaches voice at Manhattan School of Music.
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The article says KXDS was the only Classical music station in southern Utah. That is not true according to the hdradio.com website listing of HD Utah radio stations.
That says KSGU-HD2 90.3-2 FM St. George, UT is 24 hours a day of classical music from Nevada Public Radio Corp. Although the KSGU website at http://knpr.org/ does not list the HD2 station which makes me have a little doubt.