From Culture Monster at the Los Angeles Times:
Classical music fans in the L.A. area will have a second radio station to listen to starting next week with the return of K-Mozart.
Mt. Wilson FM Broadcasters said Monday that after more than three years of struggling to attract listeners to a talk and then a “retro music” format at KGIL-AM (1260), it would return the station to its previous incarnation as classical outlet KMZT beginning April 4. The programming also will be heard on KKGO-FM 105.1 HD2 and at www.KMozart.com.
KUSC-FM (91.5) has been the area’s only classical station since the demise of KMZT in October 2007. In an interview Monday, Saul Levine, president of Mt. Wilson FM Broadcasters (which also operates country station KKGO-FM and jazz station KKJZ-FM), said that situation was part of what motivated him to make the format change.
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As of 5/20/11, 105.1 FM is still not playing classical music. What happened?
Same comment as above. Still no classical on 105.1, but I can get it on the internet.
About 15 years ago Saul Levine decided to drop his popular Great American Songbook format, switching to all traffic or all news or all something else. Listeners knew something was wrong when one Sunday for several hours the station played the same half dozen records, in sequence, again and again.
Today, July 9, something similar happened. “Showtime,” the only reason i listen to kmozart, repeated the same two hour program it aired last weekend, record for record. Is something afoot with another Levine format change coming? Will next week give us all silence?