Scanning The Dial

Buzz in Orlando About WMFE Dropping Classical

October 20, 2009 by Marty Ronish

Your radio bloggers got super busy and haven’t managed to post over the last several days. Our apologies! Radio-Info.com reported earlier this week that dual format station WMFE in Central Florida is considering dropping the music from its FM side and going all news/talk. They do have a 24/hour HD stream. The rumor came from the Orlando Weekly, but I couldn’t get into the site, because my security software said it was an infected site. From Tom Taylor at Radio-Info.com: The Orlando Weekly notes that WMFE radio missed its latest fund-raising goal … Continue Reading

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The New WQXR

October 9, 2009 by Mona Seghatoleslami

Thursday night, at 8 p.m., the new WQXR as owned and operated by WNYC hit the airwaves. The station moved from 96.3 to 105.9 and became a public radio station, while continuing to broadcast classical music. The new version of the old station started with a few introductory remarks and a concert performance by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra broadcast live from Carnegie Hall.

But what’s next? How will the station’s overall sound change? Playlists for the few hours of operation so far are online (lots of standard orchestral music, but also Arvo Pärt and an opera aria), but it’s hard to tell the overall direction from such a short sample.

St. Louis to lose its classical station, KFUO

October 7, 2009 by Mike Janssen

It’s official: St. Louis’s KFUO-FM, that city’s commercial all-classical station, will be sold to a Christian broadcaster, pending FCC approval. The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has agreed to sell the station to Gateway Creative Broadcasting for $18 million and interest.

Tech study sheds light on classical listeners’ habits

October 5, 2009 by Mike Janssen

A few weeks ago I paid a quick visit to the Public Radio Program Directors conference in Cleveland. I’m working on an article for Current about the application of midday classical music research, which was discussed on the conference, so I can’t get into that subject on this blog quite yet. But there’s one thing I can share: links to the second annual Public Radio Technology Study.

This extensive study by Jacobs Media surveyed more than 28,000 public radio listeners about their use of technology. Respondents were grouped according to their preferred radio formats, so there’s lots of information to digest about classical listeners in particular, and it’s interesting to compare their habits to those of other listeners.

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