A familiar scenario, this time in Kentucky

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The news just keeps coming, and for classical fans, again it’s not good. This time it’s a public station in Kentucky that has cut back on classical music during its middays and moved it to a full-time HD Radio channel.

This decision by Murray’s WKMS has prompted a petition drive led by a local history professor. Joe Fuhrmann tells the Murray State News:

You can get the radios as cheap as $50 but you can’t buy them in Murray, and to get a very good one you have to pay about $200. As recently as three months ago, WKMS had about 15 hours per week of classical music, now the station has gone more and more into talk and news. The only HD station in the area is WKMS (HD-2). Even some people who have HD stations report they don’t have very good signal at times or they can’t even get WKMS at all.

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Nashville Loses Daytime Classical

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As of today, residents of Nashville will no longer hear classical music on the radio during the day.  Nashville Public Radio (WPLN) is replacing its classical music from 9am-3pm with On Point, Fresh Air, Here and Now, and Talk of the Nation.

These programs previously aired at different times and on WPLN’s AM station. You can find more details of the programming changes and Nashville Public Radio’s program schedules here.

WPLN will air classical on an HD Radio channel. It will also keep classical music on its main channel in the evenings and overnight on a mix of local and syndicated programs and on some weekend shows (Harmonia, Saint Paul Sunday, and SymphonyCast). And it will continue to broadcast the Nashville Symphony and Nashville Opera.

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KUSC Climbing the Charts

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If you read this blog regularly you know I’m a fan of KUSC in L.A., because they don’t shy away from fresh programming and documenting what’s going on in the real classical music world, instead of pretending that the only thing people want to listen to is music they already know. 

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Northern Indiana Classical Stations For Sale

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Radio Online reports that Classical WBNI 94.1 in Roanoke IN is on the auction block.  It’s being offered for $2.5 million. The owner is Northeast Indiana Public Radio.  The station itself is actually classified as a commercial station even though it is treated mostly like a public station.  WBNI is a sister station to the NPR affiliate WBOI, which is NOT for sale, and WBNI’s classical programming is also carried on the non-commercial frequency 91.3 WCKZ in Orland.  It’s all a little confusing.  Both WBNI and WCKZ are for sale, as is … Continue Reading

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