Links: Future of radio, Tennessee’s WUOT, CBC’s Radio

The first hour of The Diane Rehm Show yesterday focused on the future of radio. Thanks to the Public Radio Program Directors’ blog for the heads-up.

There’s speculation afoot that WUOT-FM, a news/classical public radio station in Knoxville, Tenn., may drop its midday music (though I think the Metro Pulse’s substantiation of this is a little shaky). But the station’s program director does confirm that WUOT might replace some of its local classical programming with Classical 24, the most widely carried around-the-clock satellite feed.

And a critic writing for the (Saskatoon) StarPhoenix weighs in on the changes at CBC’s Radio 2, which is cutting back on classical. Joanne Paulson says that much of the programming the network is proposing to add to Radio 2’s schedule can be heard “on pretty much every other station in Canada, including CBC Radio One.”