Governor Rick Scott of Florida has suddenly cut all state funding to public radio and television stations in the state. You can read more here. The veto means that each one of Florida’s 13 public radio stations, including WMFE in Orlando (90.7 FM) and WJCT in Jacksonville (89.9 FM), both of which can be heard in Flagler County, is losing $61,715. You might remember that in 2009 WMFE moved its classical service off the main channel to an HD channel, but the news station was doing well and meeting its goals. The … Continue Reading
In Florida, station WXEL has been sold but apparently the only thing that will change is the name. From the Palm Beach Post News:
BOYNTON BEACH — WXEL-FM 90.7 is no more. The public broadcasting station, a Palm Beach County institution for four decades, changed call letters today to WPBI-FM after its sale to Broward County-based Classical South Florida became official.
From Radio-Info.com: WVTF, run by Virginia Tech has received a construction permit for a new “station” taking over the frequency 88.3 in Fredericksburg. WVTF runs a dual format, and will be generating the content from its base in Roanoke. This will be WVTF’s 8th market for the news, classical, and jazz produced by Virginia Tech, and it will be the only CPB-certified public station in Spotsylvania County.
Thanks to AMPPR President David Duff for pointing out this article on KPBS in San Diego. From the article:
KPBS is adding a classical music web stream to KPBS.org. Now classical music fans can access their favorite music 24-7 on KPBS.org instead of only during the evening hours on radio. While KPBS’ radio feed of classical is ending, the station will continue to frequently feature local classical music performances on Saturday and Sunday evenings. In addition, KPBS will continue to feature Classical-24 on our HD2 station. HD radio is becoming increasingly popular and more affordable. Many new car models feature HD radio.