5 Million Hours of Music on Public Radio!

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April is Public Radio Music Month (who knew?), and WDIY in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania has some great statistics about music on public radio stations. Across the country, public radio music sounds like: Nationally, more than 180 public radio stations have full-time music formats and another 400 or more play music as part of their programming lineups. A recent study of the public radio system found that 1 in 3 listening hours was to music. On the whole, local public radio stations air nearly 5 million hours of music per year, … Continue Reading

WCLV Adds to Our Creative Ideas Digest

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Scanning the Dial is seeking creative ideas to share.  I’ll put these in an idea folder when we get critical mass, but I’m moving Robert Conrad’s comment into a post so you’ll see it: Speaking of poetry, WCLV has a long running annual Valentine’s Love Poem Contest. We get between 100 and 150 poems with the winning 10 poems read on the air and posted in both print and audio on our web page. All winners get an assortment of “love” themed CDs, tickets to area concerts, etc. The first place winner … Continue Reading

Karl Scroggin Retirement Send-Off

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Radio friend Karl Scroggin, who has been at WUIS in Springfield for nearly 30 years, was honored by his station this week with a retirement party and a gift of tickets to the Chicago Symphony and a stay at the historic Palmer House (where brownies were invented!). You can read more at LincolnCourier.com. More than 100 well-wishers stopped by Thursday to wish Scroggin a bon voyage in his retirement. A WUIS on-line description of Scroggin serves as a lasting tribute to him: “For 20 of the last 30 years, classical music enthusiasts have welcomed the … Continue Reading

Good News in SF: KDFC Expands

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The University of Southern California is adding to its collection of stations  in the Bay Area with the purchase of KCNL 104.5 in San Jose.  The goal is to increase the coverage of classical KDFC into the South Bay area.  If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll recall that KDFC switched from commercial to public early in 2011.  You can read about it at Radiosurvivor.com and and a little more clearly at Radio-Info.com. It’s probably one of the most convoluted arrangements in the radio universe: KDFC used to belong to Entercom, who sold the brand and the programming to … Continue Reading

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