I’ve been away from the blog for a few months working on two big projects. One of them launches Jan. 1st, and I thought in this season of joy you might like to hear about it. It has been an amazing revelation. The project is a new radio series called America’s Music Festivals. We’re broadcasting from 26 different festivals and we heard dozens of comments like these from each one:
“I’ve never laughed so much in my life” (Benny Kim, Music from Angel Fire)
Hi all. I’m still in production exile for another week, but here’s a tidbit from Radio-info.com: In Columbus, classical music starts on 101.1, as a $5.7 million deal closes. This is Roger Vaughan selling the Grove City-licensed Class A signal to Ohio State University, which converts it to the full-time classical station it’s always wanted. That lets WOSU become a pure public radio news/talk station Pretty cool, that a classical station is still going for $5.7 million. Guess we’re not dead yet, eh?
I apologize to our readers for my absence. It’s going to be another two weeks before I’m fully back, but I just got this email from MoveOn: There’s a bill in Congress that could put media back in the hands of the Other 98% of us instead.3 Thousands of communities could get their own community-run radio stations—think youth, civic leaders, and local musicians on your FM dial, talking about the real issues facing our country. The low-power FM radio bill has passed the House and has a bipartisan majority in the Senate, but … Continue Reading
A curous thing happened on the way to higher ratings…