Miami’s WKCP to offer live broadcast of Cleveland Orchestra

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Authormike72x72_3After Marty wrote last week about classical music and new media, we got a tip from Lawrence Budmen, a music critic who writes for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Lawrence alerted us to the fact that Saturday at 8 p.m. Eastern time, WKCP in Miami will broadcast a live performance by the Cleveland Orchestra from Miami’s new Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. The concert will be streamed online at WKCP’s website, and Brian Newhouse, host of public radio’s SymphonyCast, will provide on-site commentary. “This definitely marks a major expansion for the station,” Lawrence tells us.

WKCP is owned by American Public Media Group, the parent company of American Public Media and Minnesota Public Radio. APMG is one of the most aggressively expansionist broadcasters in public radio. Though based in Minnesota, APMG also operates a station serving Los Angeles and recently attempted to move into Washington, D.C. WKCP marks the network’s latest expansion into a major market beyond its home base. Here’s more info on WKCP. And thanks to Lawrence for the tip!

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Mike Janssen Served as Scanning The Dial's original co-authors from Mar, 2008 to Jan, 2010 and is a freelance writer, editor and media educator based in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. He has written extensively about radio, mostly for Current, the trade newspaper about public broadcasting, where his articles have appeared since 1999. He has also worked in public radio as a reporter at WFDD-FM in Winston-Salem, N.C., where he began his career in journalism and filed pieces for NPR. Mike's work in radio expanded to include outreach and advocacy in 2007, when he worked with the Future of Music Coalition to recruit applicants for noncommercial radio stations. He has since embarked on writing a series of articles about radio hopefuls for FMC's blog.

Mike also writes regularly for Retail Traffic magazine and teaches workshops about writing, podcasting and radio journalism. In his spare time he enjoys vegetarian food, the outdoors, reading, movies and traveling. You can learn more about Mike and find links to more of his writing and reporting at mikejanssen.net.

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