WITF in Harrisburg PA Drops Classical

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At the end of this month, classical music lovers in Harrisburg and Chambersburg will no longer find 94 hours a week of classical music on their public radio station.  In place of music, the station is switching to nearly all news/talk.  To add insult to injury, Harrisburg listeners are treated like this in the press: WITF is adding a classical music Internet channel to witf.org. Now lovers of classical music will be able to access their favorite music 24-7 on witf.org, via computer, mobile device or Internet radio. I guess they are practicing politics-speak for when they go talkedy-talk on … Continue Reading

World’s Biggest Online Classical Destination?

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Radio Today  reports that Classic FM in the UK has launched a new website with the claim that it will become the “world’s biggest online classical music destination.” I went to the site here, and got a screen saying they only have rights to air in the UK. This is not the first time I’ve heard that an online station was going to dominate the world.  When NPR dropped most of its own original classical music programming and gathered a coalition of stations to contribute content to NPRmusic.org, they said it was going … Continue Reading

Adding Translators in Eugene OR

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Reader Brian Marchan is on top of the classical radio news.   He reports that KWAX in Eugene OR is adding three translators serving Sutherlin, Roseburg and Tri-City.  He also speculates that this might eventually affect programming in Roseburg. I wonder if the translators could eventually signal a format flip for other Univ of Oregon stations in the area from classical to a news/rythmic format. Specifically classical KSRS 91.5 Roseburg, OR which is Classical except Morning Edition and All things Considered, run by Jefferson Public Radio for the Univ of Oregon. I would add that … Continue Reading

Losing Classical Ground in Illinois/Missouri

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Radio-Info.com reports that WQUB in Quincy, IL is going to become part of the St. Louis Public Radio group.  It acquires the name Quincy Public Radio.  Unfortunately for us classical geeks, they plan to replace the midday and evening classical programming with more talkedy-talk.  They have been running Classical 24 in the midday hours but will replace those music hours with national talk programming. St. Louis Public Radio is licensed to the University of Missouri. St. Louis lost its own classical station KFUO to a religious broadcaster in 2009 after 61 years on the air.  KWMU picked up … Continue Reading

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