NPR Music on Your iPad

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NPR Music has a new app for iPads that delivers a whole boatload of content very slickly.  I don’t have an iPad, so I’m just repeating the report by Christopher Breen at Macworld. The app contains a lot of archived material — audio, video, and text — and it also has radio.  NPR has underserved classical listeners for years now, but the new app brings oodles of classical radio back under the NPR wing, even if it’s not their own content. … the right side of the screen displays at least one featured station along with a list of … Continue Reading

Classical Stations Rock, So to Speak

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Tom Taylor of Radio-Info.com reports from the Arbitron Conference in Baltimore that Classical public radio stations lead the pack in TSL (time spent listening).  He is quoting Research Director Inc.: #1, The average non-commercial classical station has an age 6+ total week time spent listening of three hours and 19 minutes. That’s “higher than 15 of the 18 commercial format groups we analyzed.” The report is called How is my station really doing? Public Radio Edition  and you can find it here.  The report says we listen longer because we’re smarter and more loyal.  Well, it doesn’t … Continue Reading

Classical Expands In South Florida

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Classical South Florida, owned and operated by American Public Media is acquiring WAYJ 88.7 FM in Fort Myers, Florida. “We’re tremendously excited to have the opportunity to bring classical music back to the Southwest Florida airwaves,” said CSF president and general manager Douglas C. Evans. “Classical South Florida was launched in Southeast Florida in the fall of 2007, and its programming can now be heard from the upper Keys to the Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast. Soon our programming will reach Southwest Florida as well, from Fort Myers to Naples and Marco … Continue Reading

Feb. 13th is World Radio Day

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UNESCO has declared Feb. 13th World Radio Day.  From their website: Radio has to be recognized as a low cost medium, specifically suited to reach remote communities and vulnerable people: the illiterate, the disabled, women, youth and the poor, while offering a platform to intervene in the public debate, irrespective of people’s educational level. Furthermore, radio has a strong and specific role in emergency communication and disaster relief. There is also a changing face to radio services which, in the present times of media convergence, are taking up new technological forms, such … Continue Reading

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